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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
pronoun it
That Friday morning in August put Lorinda Tucker to the test. The phone call from Macon, GA to the Louisville, KY offices of H.B. Fuller was from a frantic occasional customer in desperate need of help. This customer, it seemed, was running out of the glue it required for a specialized manufacturing operation. This particular glue, it turned out, wasn’t one of the products it bought from Lorinda’s company, but the caller was desperate.
Q) What does the underlined "it" refer to? I don't think "it" refers to "the glue" but there's nothing I can think of otherwise.
Q) What does the underlined "it" refer to? I don't think "it" refers to "the glue" but there's nothing I can think of otherwise.
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"it" refers to "customer" (viewed as a company rather than an individual person)
- "it" refers to "customer" (viewed as a company rather than an individual person)
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"it" refers to "customer" (viewed as a company rather than an individual person)
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Ah.. that's the idea!
I thought "it" should be "this customer" like you said, but was wondeering if a person can be referred as nonhuman pronoun it.
If so,
I thought "it" should be "this customer" like you said, but was wondeering if a person can be referred as nonhuman pronoun it.
GPY(viewed as a company rather than an individual person)What you mean is, although "it" can't simply be replaced with "a company," the meaning of "it" is considered as "a company?"
If so,
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moon7296If so, I'm still wondering what that "company" is when this customer is just one person whom we don't know whether or not he is related to a certain company or just an individual nothing to do with a company.The caller was representing a company (or similar organisation). We know this firstly because it is the only explanation for "it", and secondly b
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Hello, GPY.
I'd like to ask you one thing.
Isn't it possible for us to call the other end 'it' on the phone?
I'd like to ask you one thing.
Isn't it possible for us to call the other end 'it' on the phone?
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park sang joonHello, GPY.I'd like to ask you one thing.Isn't it possible for us to call the other end 'it' on the phone?Do you mean call a person on the other end of the line "it"? No.
It is never possible to call an individual person "it" (except sometimes babies whose *** is not known or not obvious, or, unusually, when being highly contemptuous of
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I see; thank you, GPY, for your detailed answer.
I should have used "indicate", not "call."
I kind of won't call the other e
I should have used "indicate", not "call."
I kind of won't call the other e
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