grammaire anglaise > pronoms > it

référent non humain / non humanisé

Major-General Stanley McChrystal said

the continuing fighting in Baghdad

and the threat of suicide bomb attacks

made it difficult to combat looting.

Sliding towards anarchy,
GE, p. 1,
11.4.2003.

Some children who are abused

find it hard to talk to their family and friends

because the abuser is someone they now.

Who listens to the children no one listens to?,
BT ad,
T, Business, p.1, date: ?.

« I found it hard to believe

that’s a thought-through policy ».

Patten says EU must stand up to ‘go it alone’ Bush,
GW,

p. 5, 14/20-2-2002.

formes nominales > pronoms