Ambiguous Pronouns | It Means What?

[@aravinds1754]

Hello, Sir. This is a great video. Just one little thing I wish to point out, however. In English we say: It looks like it's going to rain. In French, we say: On dirait qu'il va pleuvoir. In this context, is sort of the French equivalent of the ''it'' in English. In conclusion, I agree with you that it is sometimes clearer what pronouns are referring to in other languages. However, there is, in certain other contexts, room for ambiguity in these other languages as well

[@juancarlosmorenoaldana2361]

In Spanish many times we just don't use the pronoum. Example: va a llover = Is going to rain (it is going to rain). In other cases we use endings like la, lo, las, los attached to the verb. (this is because we use gender and number to conjugate, just like in French) example: muévelo = moveit (move it)

[@rodrigofariscojoaquom1930]

What's it? It is it. Is it just it or it could it be better without it? It's something to think about it.

[@adbesin7292]

Thanks Mark for this lessons it! it is usually to construct a sentence and it helps to make a good paragraph, actually it's nice to see you again.take care!

[@saliphongsarimart3748]

Hi Mark, Thanks for founding your channel,your voice is gentle and soothing. When will you come backe to visit to Thailand?

[@MadEnglishTV]

Thanks so much! 😃😃I hope soon!

[@shreyasarkar2732]

Hello Mark sir...it's great to see you over and over again...Thank you very much sir!!!!!!😊

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[@pamelacampitan3127]

It,s good you're back. I had been waiting for your next video.

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[@agawa6359]

Cześć Mark! Dziękuję bardzo za lekcje angielskiego jesteś taki naturalny że miło popatrzeć 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@josemas1354]

I found a good explanation of "it" into this clear lesson. Thank you.

[@avidreader4147]

Love the backdrop of your video, it's so beautiful!

[@aungkyaw3858]

Hi ! Mark ! Thank you very much for watching the useful video that refreshes my memory __ when I made the sentences before , using " it " sometimes confused me that I could use " it " or not " it " . By the way , I noticed myself that I felt as if your voice on the video had just become more familiar to me while watching the video . While posting the comment on KZbin , I just felt as if I had improved my listening skill of learning English . I hope you have a good day .

[@MadEnglishTV]

Hi! 😃😃That's great!

[@nancysalehi6110]

As usuall teaching is wonderful.

[@doreenhundshagen1144]

Hey Mark, how's "it" going??? (Wie geht "es" dir???) 😁 Well, "it" looks as if we use the word "it" in a rather similar fashion in German!!! At least "it" looks that way, doesn't "it"??? 😁😁😁 I learned a great new word today: ambiguous!!! Thank you!!! 😀 When I saw your latast photo on Instagram this morning, I just remembered a sentence I came across the other day. It's a quote by Doug Bartlow!!! "No matter how sophisticated the camara, the photographer is still the one that makes IT." There's no better way to express it, don't you think??? In my opinion one of the best pictures you've ever shared with us on Instagram was "Driving into the sunset" from August 8th. I love this one soooooo much!!!👍👍👍 The reflection of the setting sun on your SUV's bonnet looks incredible!!! If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were a professional photographer!!! That's photography at "it's" best!!! 👏👏👏 Enjoy your watermelon!!! OBTW: What's Alfredo sauce??? I've never heard of it before!!!😁 Have a wonderful day in Calgary!!! Take care, my friend!!!🙋‍♀️

[@michaellahmann1540]

Hi Doreen, so good to know that we're using "it" in our language in the same way like Mark does. So, we know the meaning of "it". Guess it's much harder for people from other countries and cultures to understand "it". Btw, I love reading all of your comments. Have a great Wednesday! 😊

[@doreenhundshagen1144]

@@michaellahmann1540 Hi Michael!!! I hope you're doing great!!! "IT's" a pleasure for me to know that you can go along with my opinion regarding the word "it" in our mother tongue!!! 555!!!😁 Have a great day too!!! Take care!!!

[@MadEnglishTV]

Hi! 😃😃Es geht mir gut, danke! I'm glad you like my pics! I'm still waiting to buy a nice camera. Maybe next year I can! Alfredo sauce is white sauce that people put on pasta. I'm not sure what it's made of. I'll figure it out when I start my cooking show! Have a great day in Germany!

[@suzannasuzanna1605]

hi Mark it was a very good lesson thanks (it is what it is) my favorite 😀 see you tomorrow nice day

[@paulabrindeiro3805]

Thank you. I watched it, and listened to it.

[@deniskolesnikov5712]

It was very interesting and very useful. Thanks Mark.

[@victorvargas8504]

Thank Mark, you're amazing.

[@valentinaputrus9254]

Hi Mark I love your videos so much, honestly best videos on KZbin that I have never seen about English. I love new to Canada and English vocabulary, and I would like to ask you if you can make more videos about how to make an essay, because I'm ESL student . I saw one but I wish if there was more. I like your explanation so much, because it hits the core of the subjects.

[@MadEnglishTV]

Thank you so much! 😃😃

[@ЮлияЮхлю]

You're right, have never thought about it.

[@guadalupegutierrez704]

Hi Mark, thanks for the examples at the end of the video, I understood better!! Take care 😘😘

[@SRveteran2762]

It was a great teaching. Thank you for your kind explanation. I fully got it. What does it mean??? :)

[@Vetgong]

Hey Mark! Actually, "it" has never got me confused or sound ambiguous to me. I have never thought what it really means, it's sort of a filler, isn't it? I'm quite used to it but thanks a lot for amazing lesson all the same! I hope you enjoyed your watermelon! Take care!

[@mubarak4886]

Great lesson. I really have noticed that the usage of (it) in some cases looks kind of weird, but now you clarified it well. Thanks. The other thing that confuses me is that there are some verbs could be transitive and and intransitive, for example the verb ( to move): Transitive case : I would like to move this table forward. Intransitive case: I would like to move to Vancouver.

[@josuepalma8495]

Hi, Mark. Nice video. You always make me laugh. We, spanish speaker don't have that problem when learning English, yet that IT's a similar situation, because we don't have a noun fot those cases.

[@tomsawyer8311]

Hi Mark! It is exciting to enjoy your lesson in the open air again, though it’s a little bit cloudy. It seems like a sort of weird logic implied in this scene of the fire truck. Does it mean a very start of a sad story even a tragedy, especially in such a doleful weather? But it seems both you and the girl doing laps around the soccer field, are not the part of the drama of sorrow. Yeah, shake it out and then do whatever you like! Shake the tension out of your bodies, shake the pressure out of your minds, and shake a sort of bad mood out of the gloomy weather that very often is prone to filling your hearts with something about death and departure, just as the very fire truck might have suggested at the beginning of the video. Thank you and have a good mood!

[@MadEnglishTV]

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[@ohiopines14]

Thanks for the word IT! Though it's a two-lettered word, it does a lot. It represents, substitutes, refers to anything or words to make the sentence simple and complete. It's like a free size SHIRT- it fits all 😀. Though it substitutes something unclear, the truth is it is clear😁 I hope my message here make sense. lol. Thanks for this lesson! Till then, you nailed IT!😜

[@MadEnglishTV]

Lol, maybe I should come out with a line of ambiguous t-shirts that say "it". 😃😃

[@whatsspecialtoday]

Thank you so much, teacher .🙏 so glad to have you back. It's nice to hear that the weather is nice out there. Great lesson 👍👍👍👏 Take care, too🤗🍉🍉🍉

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[@emadbek]

You are amazing, keep (it) that way.

[@lestusnyirenda3230]

I enjoy your lessons I wish you can be native English teacher

[@LocalScenery]

In my country, when we talk about the weather, we don't have a subject like 'it.' Ang init! it's hot! Parang uulan. Perhaps it's gonna rain. Ang lamig! It's so cold! What I observe now in English is the omission of the subject 'I.' and some verbs. I often hear that on TV documentaries. Thank you, Mark! ♥

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[@ThuyBui-dp6vf]

I watched your video everyday _ I really enjoy it

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[@kirangupta221]

Wow...I like the climax of this video. You always do something creative.

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[@renatagomes9329]

Hi Mark! Can be confusing at first, but I think it's just a matter of getting used to, like everything in life! 😊👍

[@سلطانالملك-ض5ش]

awesome your language is very clear, inspite your vlog is long, I understand you, Thank you alot

[@MadEnglishTV]

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[@serhiikorchaka9864]

Thank you so much, Mark! It's a good video :)

[@analuisa2897]

I did taught about that thank you for doing this it really clarify everything thanks

[@soniasv7971]

It's a wonderful channel 👏👏👏💕

[@roger-co9wx]

thank you mark

[@hayyafalashmali227]

Thank you

[@marthabaumgartner5282]

👍 great job. Thanks

[@bellasam1627]

i love your videos thanks mark

[@minativishwakarma3985]

Yes, the pronoun is little weird... confusing.... but it's quite understandable in the context of a situation.... Thanks Mark!! Love you..😍😍

[@salimsalama6897]

I hope you a wonderful day and happy feelings 🇮🇶🌹

[@pirasathpiraba6338]

Thank you....

[@roromountain8507]

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[@safaribadov2346]

Thanks a lot

[@emstravellucky783]

It's easy to use in a sentence. It makes sense to use it. I love it. You can play with it. Get it?

[@osdanny]

I'd like you to make a video explaining how to pronounce correctly when native speakers drop "TH" in THEM or when drop H in Him, and say... for example: I tell 'em. that sounds at the end. "em", please.

[@MadEnglishTV]

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[@sararaquel7140]

Hi Mark its wonderful Day

[@jokeverburg37]

Hi Mark, I think it's the same in our country. We use the word "het". It looks like it's going to rain. "Het" lijkt erop, dat "het" gaat regenen. How's it going? Hoe gaat "het"? I've learned a new word today, ambiguous. I'll try to remember it. Thanks Mark you're amazing!!! 👋

[@MadEnglishTV]

Hi! 😃😃That's great!

[@gicilo386]

Thankes

[@juditjuhasz9395]

I didn't have enough time to listen to this video, but now I've made it :)

[@mircoavendanovillanueva8156]

The same question asked my teacher Anne(a british teacher) and she told me "I don't know" . I think "the sky" is gonna rain lol. Anyway in any language it's necessary a subject and sometimes we don't know the way we call a certain "entity" and we just use It.

[@MadEnglishTV]

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[@doriginals7587]

It was a great lesson... 👏

[@jocelyncaras6367]

Hi mark, have a nice day 😊😊

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You too! 😃😃

[@Franciscoluche]

Eat some water... 🤔 melon 🍉 !!! 😂👍 Hi from Vietnam 😊🇻🇳

[@aurthanesbit7408]

Hey there! Gosh!!! Fire (It's looks it gotcha rain/ shower/ drizzle) Hey Sups Hey, how ya/you doing How's it How it's going How are you Heya Howdy Hi Or simply_how's life ( I used this last time) there r so many ways to greet people How it's doing ( even that's a greeting too) Bingo!! There are idoms on 🔥 Today I'm extinguished, lit. ( Excactly I'm feeling today) that's how I'm feeling today..... In order to refresh your memory so you can go on on on.......... Hope ya day is more smashing! Unlike me meh Thanks for today's lesson. Over n out dude

[@MadEnglishTV]

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[@Valeria-jk8ti]

I love " it" i use it a lot . It is short and easy to pronounce It can often be put into sentences and It is not so much wrong. 5 it😂😻🤗

[@MyLove-sv5qn]

Hi Mark good morning from Taiwan

[@MadEnglishTV]

Good morning! 😃😃

[@hasanaliyev7716]

İn my grammar books "it" is called as a formal subject of a sentence and acually isn t translated

[@birguldemir7749]

I really have a problem with it thank you.

[@Amy-velvetlai]

Chinese is even no bothering to say "it" in many cases, because we assume the listener is smart to know "it is sky or weather "we are referring, so many unnecessary parts are just saved,. English is limited by its form, requiring the subject and predicate or others, but Chinese no limits, as long as the meaning is conveyed to the people then that is good communication.

[@marynastanishevska8164]

When we say the same things in Ukrainian we simply omit the subject) Literally we say this: looks like going to rain, thunders... we are not so concerned about having all parts of the sentence in their places))

[@MadEnglishTV]

Awesome! 😃😃

[@abunaserchy5321]

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[@katalinmartonnenagy310]

We were taught in the school: an English sentence must always have a noun. If there isn't, you should put in the "it" and the problem is solved. E.g. It's funny, it's sunny, it's OK. e.t.c. You can find this also in German: Es ist schön. Wie geht es dir u.s.w.

[@miratulasad9461]

Let's try to find it out : 'IT ' is used for 1) it= something ! Something =? (what)! ?= somebody wants to mean= whatever it is = subject 2 ) it is 1 way of talking just like there is /are 3)IT shortens A big sentence - I tried to save the dog's life but it didn't make it. Make it=survive = it didn't survive Think in a different way - It didn't make the chance for being saved - Ohh it's horrible to type something I quit

[@MadEnglishTV]

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[@onigonzalez5054]

Thank

[@nguyenloi2908]

Thank you Mark so much :) you remind me to your twerking video, pretty cool ;) and it's so awwsome to watch your videos everyday btw I really love watermelon

[@jesusorlandovelaquispe2740]

I got it, those of us who speak Spanish are told that this is because in English a sentence makes no sense without a subject, except for imperatives

[@reemauh2674]

Hello Mark

[@nurulfarida3310]

Hi.... I'm from Indonesia

[@chalonginprom3124]

Thanks, I am not understanding clearly. Because I' m just learning for communication. It isn't my native language. I feel it is weird too in term of grammar.

[@willymendoza2046]

Hi Mark hugs

[@katsukun1958]

Other weird sentences: It doesn't matter. It depends on -. It can't be helped. It's up to you. It looks like fun.

[@luulmohmuod5837]

Take care too.

[@pankajsarang1292]

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[@santiagoavendano8840]

Hi mark

[@danielaangova5403]

I'm not so confused to use "it" to describe something unclear and ambiguous. But in another aspect, when it applies to people, for example: "How's it going ?" or "What's up?"- it's weird for me, that these aren't real questions and don't need real answers.

[@rumeshmadushanka3857]

(don't eat anythi with a face) is that the idioms

[@kabadujoin5368]

We have null subject in turkish thats why i didnt struggle in this topic

[@sergionovaes2072]

I have a question mark

[@karlachavarria7455]

It's extrange. What? It. = That frase do not say anything, but we have to learn it. LOL. Oh my God!

[@nydiayoselin]

I think I use it right because the translation I leaned. For me have more than one meaning. But my explaination skills are low hahahaha

[@MadEnglishTV]

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[@aurthanesbit7408]

I can't believe 😮😃 both of you are BFF(I'm nostalgic) !!! You are really missing him Aaaooohoooo " Pennywise " 🎈!!!! I think you'll be on fire when you find IT back home waiting for you. Enjoy your 🍉 , 🍿, 🍻 with IT. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@maricopiguada4079]

Hahaha this lesson is so fanny for me, under my opinion English is a crazy language

[@english-is-fun]

That's why 'it' is called an empty subject

[@TheYomismo33]

Hi from again from Spain.It´s curious how you expose this particular point , i think this ambigous appear in every language one way or another , in my language we use "lo " what is mean "it" too . for example : we said "quiero conocer-lo" what it mean :i wanna to know-it. So i thnik it´s pretty similar. Of course thanks for your class. Regards.

[@MadEnglishTV]

Cool! 😃😃Thanks so much for watching my videos!

[@drxpfn9476]

You are FUNNy 😄

[@irenehuereca1078]

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[@灯盏-c4w]

If you often say "it"while talking to me, i can understand your meaning. But if you cheat with me online and i just guess what you say...

[@valentin-j60]

Another dummy subject is:there, in my latin language I am using clauses without subject for that

[@fassbenderf716]

Ambiguous

[@rd3428]

Ok Cheers But ummm Can i have your watermelon please! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😲😲😲😲😒😒😒😒😒😯😯😯😯😲🙋‍♀️

[@alexandraxenia2517]

Mark,are you happy???Have you a girl friend??❤

[@winechit9543]

Hi Mark