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Englishing
ESL - Expletive sentences (there, here, it)
Expletive constructions are phrases or sentences that begin with “There are,” “There is,” “It is,” “It was", "Here comes", etc. The verb “to be” is also part of many of these uninspired sentences. In this lesson, Mr. P. will give an easy...
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Sentence Diagramming 14: The Expletive
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates what an expletive, a pronoun without an antecedent, is.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Expletives
Notes introducing expletives and demonstrating how they can be used as a rhetorical device. Notes can be both read and listened to.