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Silak12 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

What does "it" refer to?

Hi! everyone.

Could you tell me what "it" in the colored sentence refers to? And also could you give me similar grammatical sentence constructions with "it", so that I can understand it better? I would be much obliged.

But God can give him not only these but something infinitely higher-the rewards of the Hereafter,-which it did not even enter his heart to ask for or his imagination to conceive.

Thanks!

  

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"It" here is idiomatic and doesn't really have a literal meaning. "

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"It" here is idiomatic and doesn't really have a literal meaning. Another example of this type of construction:

"It never occurred to me that her feelings could be hurt by what I said."

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This is very complex transformation of

To ask for the rewards of the hereafter or (to ask for) his imagination to conceive the rewards of the hereafter did not even enter his heart.

'which' takes the place of its antecedent, the rewards of the hereafter, giving:

[to ask for which or (to ask for) his im
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Thanks sir for your insightful answer and your precious time.

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