10.5 impersonal 'it'

When you want to say something about a fact, an action, or a particular state, you can use a structure beginning with 'it', for example 'It's strange that he didn't call', 'It's easy to laugh', and 'It's no fun being stupid'.

You also use an 'it' structure to talk about the weather or the time, for example 'It's raining', 'It's a nice day', and 'It's two o'clock'.

'It' structures are dealt with in the section beginning at paragraph 10.31.