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Re: Odd construct

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Friday, October 12, 2001, 20:28
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Matthew Pearson wrote:


> If you mean the semantically empty "it" found in sentences like "It is
> raining" or "It seems that John is sick", then yes.  Both are referred
> to as expletives.

I wasn't aware of that meaning for "expletive".

Padraic.