Posted by rfvv on Friday, August 29, 2014 at 11:22pm.
1.Thank you for visiting our nursing home. It was great fun last weekend.
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In Sentence 1, what does 'It" refer to?
2. Look at the elderly person.
3. Look at the elderly people.
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Are both OK? Is Sentence 2 grammatical? Can we use the singular noun after 'elderly'?
English - PsyDAG, Friday, August 29, 2014 at 11:46pm
1. The visit.
Elderly can be used to modify both.
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Thank you for your help.
1.Thank you for visiting our nursing home. It was great fun last weekend.
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In Sentence 1, what does 'It" refer to?
(Q1: You said it refers to 'the visit.' Can it also mean 'visiting our nursing home'? Or Is 'it' an impersonal pronoun?)
(Q2: What does 'last weekend'modify? What is the part of speech of 'last weekend'? Is 'last weekend' an adverbial phrase or an adjective phrase?)
"It" is one of those impersonal nouns, but yes, it seems to modify "visiting..." (the whole phrase).
The phrase "last weekend" is adverbial, telling when the action happened.
In Sentence 1, "It" refers to "the visit." "It" is a pronoun used to refer back to a noun mentioned earlier in the sentence, which in this case is "the visit."
(Q1: No, in this case "it" does not refer to "visiting our nursing home." "It" is not an impersonal pronoun, but rather a pronoun that replaces "the visit.")
(Q2: "Last weekend" modifies "great fun." It tells us when the great fun took place. "Last weekend" is an adverbial phrase, as it functions to modify the verb "was" by providing additional information about the time of the action.)