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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
- 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?
- Why do we use base form of verb after the verb Do?
The dummy auxiliary verb "do" that is used in negation and questions requires a complement with a plain (base) form of the verb The tense of the clause is conveyed by the auxiliary, either "do", "does" or "did"
- There is some or There are some- which is correct?
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 existential Incidentally, there is always gets contracted to there's in speech Not contracting is unusual and draws attention
- 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
- Its + Adjective+ Infinitive - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
'It is important to take a break twice a day' 'It' is a dummy subject here, 'important' is working as an Adjective and but how this Infinitive clause'to take a break ' is working Is it an Adverb
- comparative constructions - Youre taller than (it) is described (Is . . .
QUESTION I'm sure that the dummy subject 'it' in the above examples can be omitted, but is the omission obligatory in the above examples? Or is the omission obligatory in some of the above examples but not in others?
- 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
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