| query | When you are emphasizing or drawing attention to something, you can put that thing immediately after i_ and a form of the verb 'be'.When you are emphasizing or drawing attention to something, you can put that thing immediately after it and a form of the verb 'be'. It's really these countries that have the worst environmental records. It was the country's rulers who devised this system. It was I who found him there. It's my father they're accusing. |
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| word | it |
| full-definition | pronoun You use it to refer to an object, animal, or other thing that has already been mentioned . He saw the grey Land-Rover down the by-pass. It was more than a hundred yards from him. It's a wonderful city, really. I'll show it to you if you want. My wife has become crippled by arthritis. She is embarrassed to ask the doctor about it. I took a lot of convincing that parenthood was a good idea and I didn't think I'd be much use at it. You use it to refer to a child or baby whose sex you do not know or whose sex is not relevant to what you are saying . He promised to support the child after it was born. You use it to refer in a general way to a situation that you have just described . He was through with sports, not because he had to be but because he wanted it that way. Antonia will not be jealous, or if she is, she will not show it. You use it before certain nouns, adjectives, and verbs to introduce your feelings or point of view about a situation. It was nice to see Steve again. It's a pity you never got married, Sarah. It's funny how you remember things. It's good of him to spare the time to visit at all. Is it possible he'll phone you? He found it hard to work with a microphone pointing at him. I know it's a good idea to use dental floss. It's up to us to change things we don't like. It seems that you are letting things get you down. You use it in passive clauses which report a situation or event . It has been said that stress causes cancer. Yesterday it was reported that a number of people had been arrested in the capital. It was noted that within a year the incidence of illness had increased quite significantly. You use it with some verbs that need a subject or object, although there is no noun that it refers to. Of course, as it turned out, three-fourths of the people in the group were psychiatrists. I like it here. You use it as the subject of 'be', to say what the time, day, or date is. It's three o'clock in the morning. It was a Monday, so she was at home. It's December 1989, in Las Vegas. You use it as the subject of a link verb to describe the weather, the light, or the temperature . It was very wet and windy the day I drove over the hill to Milland. It's getting dark. Let's go inside. It was warm in the kitchen. You use it when you are telling someone who you are, or asking them who they are, especially at the beginning of a phone call . You also use it in statements and questions about the identity of other people. 'Who is it?' he called.—'It's your neighbor.' Hello Freddy, it's only me, Maxine. When you are emphasizing or drawing attention to something, you can put that thing immediately after it and a form of the verb 'be'. It's really these countries that have the worst environmental records. It was the country's rulers who devised this system. It was I who found him there. It's my father they're accusing. |
| cefr-level | A1 |
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