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  • 29-12-2015
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What does “it” refer to in “it's raining”?

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WorldCitizen WorldCitizen
  • 30-12-2015

the "it" here does not refer to anything. It is a so-called dummy pronoun, which  means that it only has a syntactic function: a sentence needs a subject. so it "fills" this gap, but semantically, it does not refer to anything.

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