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posted by rfvv Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 8:44am.




---------------------------------------What does 1)it refer to?
Does 1) it refer to 'the musical pipe'? Or is 1) it "Situation It"?
Good! Now, hold the musical pipe and blow across each straw.
- 1)It's cool. How does 2)it make a sound?
What does 2)it refer to?
Does 2) it refer to 'the musical pipe' or 'each straw'?
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English - Writeacher Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 9:33am
1) In "It's cool!" it refers to the experience in general.

2) "It" refers to the musical pipe.

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English - Reed Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 9:34am
It refers to the instrument, the pipe.

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English - Reed Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 9:37am
Yes, in 1) it could refer to either the experience or the pipe itself.
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Good! Now, hold the musical pipe and blow across each straw.
- 1)It's cool. How does 2)it make a sound?

[Doesn't '2)it' refer to 'each straw'?]

I wouldn't take it that way. It takes multiple straws to make a pipe, and it's the whole pipe that makes the sound(s). That's why I take "it" to refer to the whole pipe, not each straw individually.

In the given sentence, "How does 2)it make a sound?", the pronoun "it" refers to the musical pipe. This is because the sentence is discussing the action of making a sound, which is associated with the musical pipe as a whole, rather than each individual straw. However, due to the lack of clarity in the sentence, one could argue that "it" refers to each straw individually. In this case, the sentence could be interpreted as asking how each straw makes a sound.