It can be used as Preparatory Subject or Preparatory Object
Homework
• 1. look for more information about usage of it from grammatical books after class, especially in some adverbial clauses. And do the following exercises printed on the paper.
Summary 1
It
can be used as personal pronouns (人称代词), referring to the person, animal or matter mentioned above,
or the person who you are not sure of gender.
It can be used as impersonal
pronouns (非人称代词)to talk about time, date, distance or weather and so on.
Summary 2
Summary 3
“It” can be used in the subject or object position to stand for the infinitive(不定式)or a clause.
• 总之,信不信由你,高三(9)班是我校最好的 班级之一。
Bruce, if you want to save the world, you have to start trusting
.
What jobs can “it” do?