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    When we talk about time or the weather, we use sentences such as: it is four o'clock. It is sometimes used to "anticipate" something which appears later in the same sentence. We can remove it from the sentence and replace it with to see you.

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    When we talk about time or the weather, we use sentences such as: it is four o'clock. It is sometimes used to "anticipate" something which appears later in the same sentence. We can remove it from the sentence and replace it with to see you.

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    When we talk about time or the weather, we use sentences such as: it is four o'clock. It is sometimes used to "anticipate" something which appears later in the same sentence. We can remove it from the sentence and replace it with to see you.

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    When we talk about time or the weather, we use sentences such as:

    What time is it?


    It is four oclock
    It is snowing
    Its going to rain
    Here, we cannot identify precisely what it refers to. It has a rather vague reference, and we
    call this DUMMY IT or PROP IT. Dummy it is also used, equally vaguely, in other
    expressions:
    Hold it!
    Take it easy!
    Can you make it to my party?
    It is sometimes used to anticipate something which appears later in the same sentence:
    Its great to see you
    Its a pity you cant come to my party
    In the first example, it anticipates to see you. We can remove it from the sentence and
    replace it with to see you:
    To see you is great
    Because of its role in this type of sentence, we call this ANTICIPATORY IT.

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