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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

lexical bundles starting with anticipatory' it'

hi.I am the student of M.A working on my thesis.please help me.I have a question.in the sentence It is possible to do research on it.what is the fuction of" it is possible to"?what can we call it?i need to know this part of the sentence because I have to analyze it and compare this part of the sentence with target text equivalent.
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Eli
  

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It is possible to do research on it . It is anticipatory of the 'real'; subject, 'to do research on it': To do research on it is possible . is is the main verb of the sentence.

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  • It is possible to do research on it .
  • It is anticipatory of the 'real'; subject, 'to do research on it': To do research on it is possible .
  • is is the main verb of the sentence.
  • possible is a predicate adjective.
  • to do research on it is an infinitive clause acting as adjective complement to possible .
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It is possible to do research on it.

It is anticipatory of the 'real'; subject, 'to do research on it': To do research on it is possible.
is is the main verb of the sentence.
possible is a predicate adjective.
to do research on it is an infinitive clause acting as adjective complement to possible.
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Hi Eli,

I checked my Quirk and Greenbaum (student edition pp 417-418) reference book.

Assuming that I'm correct, it is possible to is called the postponed subject.

It / is / possible to do research on it. --> SVC pattern
S V C

derived from

To do research on it is possible.

To do research on it / is / possible.
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