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Impersonal

A general term for any construction in which the action described is assigned to no one in particular. English has the dummy pronoun it for this purpose.

  • It is raining.
  • It seems that we have a problem.

Other constructions with impersonal you, impersonal they and impersonal one also exist.

 

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