I can’t think of any other ‘it’ that is meaningless. ‘It’ normally refers to something in the sentences context. But in that and in the sentence ‘it rains’ there is nothing that ‘it’ could refer to. The sky doesn’t snow, the weather doesn’t snow and neither do the clouds.
It’s the sky that’s snowing, skys snow, sometimes they rain.
Is this just my left brain?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s called a dummy pronoun.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
wow, rude.
folkrav@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Funny. In French, we call it a “pronom impersonnel”, meaning non-personal pronoun.