English Explanatory Dictionary

dummy pronoun

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pronoun used to fulfill a syntactic role rather than one with a specific referent. For example, the "it" in "It's raining".

Word forms

dummy pronoun dummy pronouns

Related words

dummy it weather it
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