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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
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What do ‘this’ and ‘it’ indicate respectively?
She’s reached the trees now. Looking up she sees the cool white of the sky burning through the young green of the beech leaves, a green so fresh and keen and luminous that the canopy could be eternity itself, life for ever renewed. For this is May. She had forgotton about May, the one month in England when every day brings new explosion of glory.
“Lord God in heaven,” she says aloud. “Don’t leave me.”
What kind of prayer is that? Never a believer before, no comfort sought in the cold gloom of the church. But this is what she has it in her to say, to this nothing she has never known. Don’t leave me.
What do ‘this’ and ‘it’ indicate respectively?
“Lord God in heaven,” she says aloud. “Don’t leave me.”
What kind of prayer is that? Never a believer before, no comfort sought in the cold gloom of the church. But this is what she has it in her to say, to this nothing she has never known. Don’t leave me.
What do ‘this’ and ‘it’ indicate respectively?
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" "It" has no antecedent. " (To be capable of doing something) In some cases, "it" seems to refer to the particular thing you're capable of doing at the time. Eg, somebody jumps over a fence to prove he can do it.
- " "It" has no antecedent.
- " (To be capable of doing something) In some cases, "it" seems to refer to the particular thing you're capable of doing at the time.
- Eg, somebody jumps over a fence to prove he can do it.
- His friend says, "Wow!
- ) This is what she is capable of saying:
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eipjooBut this is what she has it in her to sayI'd say "this" refers to "Lord *** in heaven, Don't leave me."
"It" has no antecedent. In this context it's part of an idiom: "To have it in you to do something."
(To be capable of doing something)
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