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Micaela Downs
14 January, 17:30
What does "it" refer to in "it's raining"?
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Muhammad Key
14 January, 19:29
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The "it" here does not refer to anything. It is a so-called dummy pronoun, which means that it only has a syntactic function: a sentence needs a subject. so it "fills" this gap, but semantically, it does not refer to anything.
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