syntactic expletive (Q188274)
word that contributes nothing to the semantic meaning of a sentence but performs a syntactic role (e.g. "it" in "it is raining")
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description word that contributes nothing to the semantic meaning of a sentence but performs a syntactic role (e.g. "it" in "it is raining")

External Links
(P646) /m/0js8l
(P6366) 100234860