Sunday, August 23, 2015

pronouns - Why only "it", not "this" or "that"?




It seems you are incompetent to achieve our goal.


The chocolate tastes sweet when it is tasted. (Quasi-passive voice)


It is raining.


Your request, it is under consideration now.



and so on, so on and so on...


These constructions, if you observe, can easily understand the similarity among them- it is using "it" everytime. Now my question is why is it "it" always? Why is not this "this" or "that"?




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