{"id":73984,"date":"2020-04-14T05:35:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73984"},"modified":"2020-04-14T05:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:35:14","slug":"uses-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/uses-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Uses Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/it-as-a-preparatory-subject-and-object\/\"><b>It<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is a <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/pronouns\/\">pronoun<\/a> used for lifeless things and animals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have bought a table;\u00a0<b>it<\/b>\u00a0is made of teakwood.<\/li>\n<li>The dog is ill;\u00a0<b>it\u00a0<\/b>should be taken to the hospital.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>It\u00a0<\/b>is often used to refer to a young child. This is particularly common when the sex of the child is not mentioned.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The baby cried because\u00a0<b>it\u00a0<\/b>was hungry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>It\u00a0<\/b>can be used to refer to some statement in the preceding clause.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He created the trouble; and he knows\u00a0<b>it<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>He was telling a lie; and he knew\u00a0<b>it<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>It\u00a0<\/b>can be used as impersonal pronoun.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>It\u00a0<\/b>is raining.<\/li>\n<li><b>It\u00a0<\/b>has been snowing for hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that\u00a0<b>it\u00a0<\/b>is also used in speaking of the weather or the time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>It\u00a0<\/b>is fine weather now.<\/li>\n<li><b>It<\/b>\u00a0is time they started work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>It\u00a0<\/b>can be used to refer back to a collective noun when it is viewed as a single unit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>committee\u00a0<\/b>has decided to hold\u00a0<b>its<\/b>\u00a0next meeting on the 25th.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>jury\u00a0<\/b>gave\u00a0<b>its<\/b>\u00a0verdict.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Note<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We do not use\u00a0<b>it<\/b>\u00a0to refer back to a collective noun when it is used to refer to the separate members. Instead we use\u00a0<b>they<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>committee were\u00a0<\/b>divided in\u00a0<b>their<\/b>\u00a0opinion. (NOT The committee were divided in its opinion.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note also the use of the <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/singular-and-plural-2\/\">plural<\/a> verb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00a0is a pronoun used for lifeless things and animals. I have bought a table;\u00a0it\u00a0is made of teakwood. The dog is ill;\u00a0it\u00a0should be taken to the hospital. It\u00a0is often used to refer to a young&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1565,2642],"class_list":["post-73984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-it","tag-it-as-a-pronoun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73985,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73984\/revisions\/73985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}