word meaning - Difference between "idiot" and "dummy"? - English ...
May 20, 2020 · 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 …
"There is some" or "There are some"- which is correct?
Nov 4, 2022 · Initial There's is OK before anything. When it's at the beginning of the sentence, it's just a dummy, with no meaning or plural, and it's reified into one word before anything plural can happen in …
pronouns - What exactly is a dummy-it? - English Language Learners ...
Dec 12, 2023 · "Dummy it refers to nothing at all; it simply serves a grammatical function. In other words, dummy it has a grammatical meaning but no lexical meaning." Here, there are clear meanings and …
grammar - why we need dummy subjects and it's usage? - English …
Oct 28, 2017 · 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 …
Are dummy subject and impersonal subject the same?
Apr 20, 2016 · That's a pretty good sign of a dummy pronoun at work as per the quote mentioned above. I would even go so far as to say that the terms impersonal pronoun and dummy pronoun are really …
It - Preparatory subject - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
May 3, 2024 · There is no question of dummy "it" being a preparatory element, since the elements that follow it do not give the meaning if "it". "It" is, then, just a dummy element serving the syntactic …
Using "they" in tag questions with everybody/nobody etc
Jun 9, 2021 · 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 …
pronouns - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Sep 20, 2023 · It's an anticipatory "it", as "it" could be replaced with "you joining us". It's not a dummy as it does actually refer to something specific. The second is the same, although calling it anticipatory …
word meaning - "Hi there!" -- What does this 'there' mean? - English ...
Jan 5, 2016 · 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.
dummy pronouns - How many meters is it/are there/is there between ...
May 16, 2023 · Which one is correct? 1 How many meters is it between this tree and that car? 2 How many meters is there between this tree and that car? 3 How many meters are there between this tree …