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Subject:Re: argument!! From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 7 Dec 1994 17:44:04 -0800
Massi, Jerri said:
> Sorry--subject of the sentence is "millions"
> "it" is the object of a preposition.
You're confusing syntactic subject with the subject of discussion of
the sentence.
>> The sentence -> Millions of people from every continent are connected to
>> it.
>>
>> the word "it" is the subject and an echo word. I say the sentence should
