dummy subject

noun

Definitions

  1. In English, a word (such as it or there) used as the subject of a sentence when the real…

    In English, a word (such as it or there) used as the subject of a sentence when the real subject is placed after the main verb, or when the subject is indefinite.

    • In the expression "It's raining", the word "it" is a dummy subject.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dummy subject. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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