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Dummy pronoun
pronoun having no referent, only used to fulfill grammatical rules; e.g. "it" as in "it rains"
Pronunciation
/ˈdʌmi ˈprəʊnaʊn/
/ˈdəmi ˈproʊˌnaʊn/
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syntactic expletive
function word
pronoun