May 20, 2020 · The word "dummy" carries with it the connotation of the verb "dummy" (to trick by pretending to pass a ball), so the additional connotation of dummy, that idiot doesn't have, is …

Oct 28, 2017 · I'm not sure I understand. I don't think it's necessarily a dummy subject; I think it's an inversion or, at least, in its original sense, it was probably an inversion: "There is the book!" …

Dec 12, 2023 · In other words, dummy it has a grammatical meaning but no lexical meaning." Here, there are clear meanings and referents: a movie and a reading. (Note, "a reading" …

Nov 5, 2022 · By the time the real subject comes along, plural or not, the listener will've forgotten how the sentence started. Since it didn't start with anything meaningful except the dummy …

Jun 9, 2021 · In English, existential clauses usually use the dummy subject construction (also known as expletive) with there, as in "There are boys in the yard"… In the OP's sentence, the …

Mar 30, 2021 · This is an extraposed construction, where the subject is the dummy pronoun “it” and the adjective “important” is predicative complement of “is”. The infinitival clause “to take a …

Jan 5, 2016 · I don't think there refers to the position that the other person is in the same way as the dummy there doesn't refer to any position as in "There is a book on the table." Only on the …

May 8, 2021 · Marionette controller. The term used for the device used to control a marionette puppet (usually much more complex than just a simple cross) is, perhaps unsurprisingly, …

The omission of the dummy pronoun "it" in the subject position is valid and relatively common in speech. This is addressed in The Cambridge Grammar of The English Language (Huddleston …

Oct 8, 2016 · The Wikipedia page on dummy pronouns expressly states: "Unlike a regular pronoun of English, it cannot be replaced by any noun phrase (except for, rhetorically …