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thankyou for both replies, which were helpful. Since it was causing my students confusion, I guess what I was struggling with was finding a way to describe, in terms they'd understand, how "IT" is used as what you called a "demonic subject". I've never heard that term before. From a philosophical st...

My adult students are really confused about the word "it". They understand how it is used to replace things already known from context (like, "This is a banana. You have to peel IT." But it doesn't seem to translate into anything directly sometimes, such as in this sentence: "IT was a good thing tha...