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Expression: "I get cracked feet in winter." | Expression "It's good to GET a winner"
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"This" via "It" Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:50 am  "This" via "It"
 

Hi

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"This" via "It"

Could you please shed some light on both of them--I mean, give a few examples where both are essentially synonymous and where not.

Many thanks

Tom

PS: Is the red part of my sentence OK?
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"This" via "It" Thu Sep 06, 2007 13:44 pm  "This" via "It"
 

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Too general to deal with comprehensively, Tom. 'This' (along with 'that', 'these' and 'those') is deictic, referring to a spatial position in the contextual world outside of the sentence. 'It' is a non-spatial-referential (my term!) pronoun.

Your red words are fine.

PS: 'vs' not 'via'.
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"This" via "It" Thu Sep 06, 2007 15:35 pm  "This" via "It"
 

Mister Micawber wrote:
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Too general to deal with comprehensively, Tom. 'This' (along with 'that', 'these' and 'those') is deictic, referring to a spatial position in the contextual world outside of the sentence. 'It' is a non-spatial-referential (my term!) pronoun.

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Many thanks, MM

...but, to be honest, I need some more light on what you wrote. Could you please give one or two examples?

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"This" via "It" Fri Sep 07, 2007 0:44 am  "This" via "It"
 

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This is a pencil -- The speaker must be pointing to the pencil, or otherwise indicating it in some way, in reality outside the sentence.

It is a pencil -- the pencil need have no location and in fact no specific existence.
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