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Jisu98 Posted 19 years ago
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it --what's the role of it?
Please tell me what is the role of 'it'? Is it a 'pseudo object' ('meaningful object?' ----what is the proper word)?
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Honesty is both absent and alive in the most surprising places. The poor often found it in themselves to return the wallet, while those whod were obviously much better off sometimes trousered the money without a second thought.
Thank you!
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Honesty is both absent and alive in the most surprising places. The poor often found it in themselves to return the wallet, while those whod were obviously much better off sometimes trousered the money without a second thought.
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It may be a prop-it or introductory-it, displacing as object (of 'found') the clause 'to return the wallet' and postponing this clause to a more dominant position in the sentence. -- Or it may be just part of a fixed expression: to find it in oneself [to do]. Here, 'it' presumably refers to 'moral/ethical strength' or something of that ilk.
- It may be a prop-it or introductory-it, displacing as object (of 'found') the clause 'to return the wallet' and postponing this clause to a more dominant position in the sentence.
- -- Or it may be just part of a fixed expression: to find it in oneself [to do].
- Here, 'it' presumably refers to 'moral/ethical strength' or something of that ilk.
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It may be a prop-it or introductory-it, displacing as object (of 'found') the clause 'to return the wallet' and postponing this clause to a more dominant position in the sentence.
-- Or it may be just part of a fixed expression: to find it in oneself [to do]. Here, 'it' presumably refers to 'moral/ethical strength' or something of that ilk.
-- Or it may be just part of a fixed expression: to find it in oneself [to do]. Here, 'it' presumably refers to 'moral/ethical strength' or something of that ilk.
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