impersonal pronoun
noun/ɪmˌpɜːsənl ˈprəʊnaʊn/
/ɪmˌpɜːrsənl ˈprəʊnaʊn/
(grammar)- a pronoun (in English, the pronoun ‘it’) that does not refer to a person or thing or to any other part of the sentence, for example in ‘it was raining’
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