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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
What is "it" in the following sentence?
What is "it" in the following sentence?
He distorted the shape of a common object to make it harder to recognize.
Is 'it' pronoun?
Is 'it' placeholder?
Top answer
a pronoun
- a pronoun
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He distorted the shape of a common object to make it (that object) harder to recognize.
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If you wanted the version with placeholder it, you'd still need another it at the end to refer back to common object:
He distorted the shape of a common object to make it harder to recognize it.
But why add more complexity when the original version will do nicely?
CJ
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