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April 24, 2020

Extraposition is an expletive construction

Pronoun it is the subject According to John Lawler, extraposition “seems to work to keep subject complement clauses from assuming the normal subject position preceding the […]
May 4, 2022

Optional “that” vs. obligatory “that”

Introduction This post highlights the use of that as a function word, which refers to what a word does as opposed to what it looks like […]