It has been wonderful knowing you
It has been wonderful knowing you.
Is the sentence grammatically correct?
And then, ‘knowing you’ is a real subject like ‘to meet you’ in ‘it is nice to meet you’?
What do you native English speakers think?
Thank you so much as usual.
Top answer
It has been wonderful knowing you . To say that the subordinate clause "knowing you" is a real subject is potentially misleading. This is a extraposition construction, where the subject is the dummy pronoun "it".
- It has been wonderful knowing you .
- To say that the subordinate clause "knowing you" is a real subject is potentially misleading.
- This is a extraposition construction, where the subject is the dummy pronoun "it".
- The subordinate clause is called an extraposed subject, but that doesn't mean it's a kind of subject; it's an extraposed subject, outside the verb phrase that corresponds to the subject of the basic (non-extraposed) version Knowing you has been wonderful.
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It has been wonderful knowing you.
To say that the subordinate clause "knowing you" is a real subject is potentially misleading.
This is a extraposition construction, where the subject is the dummy pronoun "it".
The subordinate clause is called an extraposed subject, but that doesn't mean it's a kind of subject; it's an extraposed subject, outside the ver
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