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"It is comfortable to sit on this chair." is not grammatical, but why are similar constructs grammatical or used... ? - 'preparatory it' complements
It is comfortable to sit on this chair.
This is a very bad example, since on the obvious reading it is perfectly correct.
Here is what I suspect he may be trying to say, without having read the book. ...
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"It is comfortable to sit on this chair." is not grammatical, but why are similar constructs grammatical or used... ? - 'preparatory it' complements
WRONG: It is comfortable to sit on this chair.
WRONG: It was given the impression that travel expenses would be paid.
The point that Quirk is trying to make is the difference between a dummy it and a ...
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"It is comfortable to sit on this chair." is not grammatical, but why are similar constructs grammatical or used... ? - 'preparatory it' complements
I for one see a problem with (1):
(1) It is comfortable to sit on this chair.
As @alphabet has noted, the only plausible way to parse (1) would be to treat to sit on this chair as an extraposed ...
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