Playing tennis is her favorite pastime
Hello everyone. I have a question.
Regarding the following dialogue:
A: Does your mother often play tennis on weekends?
B: Yes. She says playing tennis is her favorite pastime.
In B, can we replace "tennis" with the pronoun "it"? I mean, does "She says playing it is her favorite pastime" sound natural here?
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seagull In B, can we replace "tennis" with the pronoun "it"? It makes sense grammatically, but I don't think a lot of people would say "it" there. More idiomatically "it" replaces " playing tennis": She says it's her favorite pastime.
- seagull In B, can we replace "tennis" with the pronoun "it"?
- It makes sense grammatically, but I don't think a lot of people would say "it" there.
- More idiomatically "it" replaces " playing tennis": She says it's her favorite pastime.
- The same is true of any activity expressed as an -ing verb form with an object.
- We tend to pronomialize the whole thing, not just the object.
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seagullIn B, can we replace "tennis" with the pronoun "it"?
It makes sense grammatically, but I don't think a lot of people would say "it" there. More idiomatically "it" replaces "playing tennis":
She says it's her favorite pastime.
The same is true of any activity expressed as an -ing verb form with an object. We tend to
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