Instead of "coming from you, it means a lot" can I say "coming from you, means a lot"?
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5You can say what you like, if there's enough context for the person you're speaking to to understand it. Is there a reason you want to drop "it"? Did you hear this somewhere? See this question on similar deletion.– Stuart FCommented Jul 21 at 10:17
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2No, but you can do this: From you, it means a lot.– LambieCommented Jul 21 at 15:13
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3Voting to reopen since there's an interesting question about conversational deletion here. You can omit the "it" in "(It) means a lot coming from you" in informal speech. So why can't you omit the "it" here?– alphabetCommented Jul 21 at 22:59
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Google shows plenty examples on social media (in one case quoted in a newspaper). Are they errors? How do you define an error in something so colloquial, other than by asking people "is this an error?"– Stuart FCommented Jul 22 at 12:31
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You can, but it would not be correct gramatically.
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John Lawler indicates that grammaticality (note the spelling) isn't an issue in 'intimate conversational spoken English': 'Let me reiterate that this phenomenon only occurs in speaking English, and in other informal communication systems like email and t[e]xting that work like speech. It is not good formal written style, except for reporting dialog in a story.' Commented Aug 7 at 11:21