When can we use the pronoun "it" with human?
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That would happen rarely. The only situation I can think of is referring to a baby of unknown gender. But some people would be offended even by that.
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What are the answers you already had to that question?
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But when someone is answering the phone or knocking on the door, and after hereing his/her voice, we still asking them "who is it?" and he/she will reply "it is me".
In other cases if someone asking for example "who did this?"
The replay sometimes comes "it is you" or "it is my son"
It refers to human in all above examples
In other cases if someone asking for example "who did this?"
The replay sometimes comes "it is you" or "it is my son"
It refers to human in all above examples
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'It' doesn't refer to 'me' or 'your son' likewise 'is' doesn't refer to 'me'. ;-)
Both refer to English grammar.:up:
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Yes, we do use '"it" in such cases.
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The answer that I have is:
We use it with human how does the action is someone unknown to us at the moment of speaking, even if we already know that person, but we don't know that he is the one who dose or did the action.
but I'm not sure if it is a correct grammar or not
We use it with human how does the action is someone unknown to us at the moment of speaking, even if we already know that person, but we don't know that he is the one who dose or did the action.
but I'm not sure if it is a correct grammar or not
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We use pronoun "it" with any part of human body (heart, brain, skeleton, soul …etc.) in fact we refer by pronoun "it" to the person humanity not to that person body.
I'm not sure abut this information.
I'm not sure abut this information.
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Could we double-check your understanding of 'refer to', shall we?
When I hear some noise and want to know what has happened I'm referring to 'the reason for the noise I have heard' which clearly should be 'it'.
By the same token, when somebody answers my question, he or she refers to something that produced that noise. It could be a person but it could equally be practically anything - animals, falling objects, wind... whatever... ghosts :shock:
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I use they when I do not know the gender:
Someone took my bag- they must have seen me leave it under the desk.
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