syntactic expletive
nounDefinitions
A pronoun that is used at the start of a sentence or clause when the referent is not…
A pronoun that is used at the start of a sentence or clause when the referent is not immediately known, but an argument for the verb is syntactically required.
- In the sentences "It is a hammer that is needed." and "There are hammers in the toolbox.", both "it" and "there" are syntactic expletives.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for syntactic expletive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA