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- word meaning - Difference between idiot and dummy? - English . . .
Although idiot and dummy do commonly have the same meaning, the use of idiot in this joking phrase draws particular attention to a specific sense of idiot From Merriam-Webster's definition of idiot: 1 : a foolish or stupid person It's the use of foolish in the definition that's relevant From Merriam-Webster's definition of dummy: 1 c : a
- There is some or There are some- which is correct?
Initial There's is OK before anything When it's at the beginning of the sentence, it's just a dummy, with no meaning or plural, and it's reified into one word before anything plural can happen in the sentence 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
- It - Preparatory subject - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
There is no question of dummy "it" being a preparatory element, since the elements that follow it do not give the meaning if "it" "It" is, then, just a dummy element serving the syntactic purpose of filling the obligatory subject position
- Are dummy subject and impersonal subject the same?
It is sunny (impersonal subject) It is difficult to learn English (dummy subject or place holder) In Korea, we learn that dummy subject and impersonal subject are different But, I don't think
- grammar - why we need dummy subjects and its usage? - English Language . . .
Here is my question If something exists in some place then we use adverbs of place So adverbs can fulfill the use of existence or presence of something Then why we need dummy subjects and its usage?
- Using they in tag questions with everybody nobody etc
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 subject is not "nobody" but there (is) Consequently, the rule dictates that you should repeat the same subject used in the clause to make a question tag
- word meaning - Hi there! -- What does this there mean? - English . . .
Footnote: "there" isn't the dummy subject in these greetings "There" is a dummy subject mostly in constructions there is or there are, or before certain verbs in certain contexts
- pronouns - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
It's not a dummy as it does actually refer to something specific The second is the same, although calling it anticipatory seems a bit odd Both could be rewritten as "You joining us would be awesome" By the way, "would" is better than "will" in both cases "Will" sounds wrong with "if"
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