English Explanatory Dictionary

syntactic expletive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

syntactic expletive syntactic expletives

Related words

expletive
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