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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

This which indicates to-infintive

Is this possible for you to get rid of the marks?

I'd like to know whether 'this/that' can play the role of 'it' which indicates a real subject like to-infinitive or a that clause as in my examples.

Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon Is this possible for you to get rid of the marks? It doesn't sound right. I can't think of a context in which this would be said.

— GPY

  • park sang joon Is this possible for you to get rid of the marks?
  • It doesn't sound right.
  • I can't think of a context in which this would be said.
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park sang joonIs this possible for you to get rid of the marks?
It doesn't sound right. I can't think of a context in which this would be said.
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I'm so sorry GPY; I have selected a bad example. Emotion: crying

One fine example of this situation might be Internet, yes! We, in our da
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park sang joonHow about the underlined sentence in the new text?
It doesn't read correctly. Other parts of the text are not carefully or naturally written. Quite probably it was not written by a native speaker.
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It doesn't read correctly. Other parts of the text are not carefully or naturally written. Quite probably it was not written by a native speaker.
I'm so sorry; I didn't know.
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park sang joonBy any chance, do you use "this/that" in place of dummy "it"?
Though it is hard to immediately bring to mind every kind of usage, I can't think of any clear examples. Changing a true dummy "it" to "this" will normally either change the meaning or produce unnatural language. If it does neither, then this seems to be an indication that "it" was not
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