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Hans51 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Meaning of it
A light aircraft crashed at the International Airport on Sunday at around 6:53 pm, killing the two people on board -- the pilot and sole passenger.
When I have to rewrite the sentence, is this sentence correct?
A light aircraft crashed at the International Airport on Sunday at around 6:53 pm, and it killed the two people on board -- the pilot and sole passenger.
And then what does it refer to?
I have learned that the verb kill is related to the subject in the main clause a light aircraft, so it refers to the light aircraft but I think that it should refer to the whole sentence in the main clause to make sense like,
A light aircraft crashed at the International Airport on Sunday at around 6:53 pm = it
What do you native English speakers think?
Thank you so much as usual in advance.
When I have to rewrite the sentence, is this sentence correct?
A light aircraft crashed at the International Airport on Sunday at around 6:53 pm, and it killed the two people on board -- the pilot and sole passenger.
And then what does it refer to?
I have learned that the verb kill is related to the subject in the main clause a light aircraft, so it refers to the light aircraft but I think that it should refer to the whole sentence in the main clause to make sense like,
A light aircraft crashed at the International Airport on Sunday at around 6:53 pm = it
What do you native English speakers think?
Thank you so much as usual in advance.
Top answer
"It" refers to the accident (the crash).
- "It" refers to the accident (the crash).
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Thank you so much and I have learned that pronouns like it, you, they, etc refer to something mentioned ahead of the sentence and then I feel like it would be better to say it refers to the whole sentence, not the accident because I cannot see the word accident in the sentence and crash was used as a verb there.
Although it does not matter, whichever it is beca
Although it does not matter, whichever it is beca
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The pronoun "it" can refer to the nearest sensible noun antecedent. Sometimes there is no explicit single noun, so "it" is said to be a "dummy it" or a reference to a situation or context just mentioned. What is important is getting the meaning.
Thanks for speaking up for me at the convention. I love it when you do things like that that.
A: Do you mean to say t
Thanks for speaking up for me at the convention. I love it when you do things like that that.
A: Do you mean to say t
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