dummy it

English

Noun
Examples
  • It is raining.
  • It was lonely there all by myself.
  • The whole family paraded it together.

dummy it (plural dummy its)

  1. (grammar) The pronoun "it" used without any referent, serving only to satisfy rules of syntax.

Synonyms
  • ambient it, empty it
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