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Ah! now I see. But my confusion points out the whole problem of the
sentence. Make the syntactic subject the grammatical subject, and the
sentence will be a lot more clear.
"It connects millions of people from every continent." ?
"It is connected to millions of people from every continent." ?
What in the world could this "it" be?
I know! "It" is the "good times" virus! : )
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From: TECHWR-L
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: argument!!
Date: Wednesday, December 07, 1994 5:44PM
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
