1988achilles wrote:
sayantanc2k wrote:
sudhirgupta93 wrote:
what about 'it' in option B?
"The fact that elk now live almost solely in the Rocky Mountains would make it seem that they are mountain dwellers"
To whom does 'it' refers to?
"The fact that elk now live almost solely in the Rocky Mountains would make it seem that they are mountain dwellers"
To whom does 'it' refers to?
"It" here is acting as a placeholder, not a typical pronoun. A placeholder "it" is used to shift an awkward subject phrase or an object phrase to the end of the sentence. A placeholder "it" does not refer to a noun antecedent. Consider this example:
"It seems that it is going
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