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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

This vs it

What is the basic grammatical difference in these two questions:
What is this?
What is it?
  

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Anonymous What is this? The listener must be shown the object. Anonymous What is it?

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous What is this?
  • The listener must be shown the object.
  • Anonymous What is it?
  • The listener is already aware of what is being asked about.
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AnonymousWhat is this?
The listener must be shown the object.
AnonymousWhat is it?
The listener is already aware of what is being asked about.
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