It is more than I can do
There's a paragraph in Comer's abnormal psychology book in a chapter which discusses depressive disorders. A woman with the disorder describes her feeling:
I can’t bear it. I can’t stand the humiliating fact that I’m the only woman in the world
who can’t take care of her family, take her place as a real wife and mother, and be
respected in her community. When I speak to my young son Billy, I know I can’t let
him down, but I feel so ill-equipped to take care of him; that’s what frightens me. I
don’t know what to do or where to turn; the whole thing is too overwhelming. . . .
I must be a laughing stock. It’s more than I can do to go out and meet people and
have the fact pointed up to me so clearly.
What does the bold sentence mean?
What does "it" refer to in the last sentence?
Top answer
anonymous It ’s more than I can do to go out and meet people and have the fact pointed up to me so clearly . "it" is a dummy it . It's a place holder for the part in bold.
- anonymous It ’s more than I can do to go out and meet people and have the fact pointed up to me so clearly .
- "it" is a dummy it .
- It's a place holder for the part in bold.
- This is a typical kind of inversion when the subject is a long infinitive construction.
- Meaning: It overwhelms me to go out and meet people and hear them say all those things to me (which are listed previously in the text).
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anonymousIt’s more than I can do to go out and meet people and have the fact pointed up to me so clearly.
"it" is a dummy it. It's a place holder for the part in bold. This is a typical kind of inversion when the subject is a long infinitive construction.
Meaning:
It overwhelms me to go out and meet people and hear them
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