Expletive ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Expletive
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|_ Linguistic Property
|_ Part Of Speech Property
|_ Expletive
Definition:
An expletive (also known as a dummy word) is a part of speech whose members have no meaning, but complete a sentence to make it grammatical [Crystal 1997,127;].
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