Impersonal verb
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impersonal-verb-178-10396407
title:
Impersonal verb
text:
In linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it corresponds to an exophoric referrent. In many languages the verb takes a third person singular inflection and often appears with an expletive subject. In the active voice, impersonal verbs can be used to express operation of nature, mental distress, and acts with no reference to the doer. Impersonal verbs are also called weather verbs
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Verb that has no determinate subject
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impersonal_verb
date created:
2004-12-15T04:21:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T17:19:53Z
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