Impersonal “It” 비인칭 가주어

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Impersonal “It” Missing before an Infinitive Clause

https://emswriting.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/verbals-verbal-phrases-and-verbal-clauses-7/
May 16, 2014

Let’s take a look at how infinitive clauses are used after impersonal adjectives like easy, hard, necessary, unnecessary, possible, and impossible. These impersonal adjectives come along with the impersonal pronoun it:

impersonal adjective 는 비인칭 형용사로 비인칭 동사와 같은 맥락에서 이해된다
In linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject.
For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it does not refer to anything.

Example:

    Incorrect: I am hard to concentrate. 틀린 이유는 내가 어려운게 아니고 집중하기가 어려움

    Correct: It is hard for me to concentrate. 부정사구를 it 로 써 주면 부정사구의 내용이 어려운걸로 됨

    Correct: It is hard (X) to concentrate. 부정사구의 의미상 주어를 빼면 특정 대상이 없이 일반화가 됨



The impersonal it doesn’t just happen in simple sentences such as in the example above; it can also begin a complement clause.
A complement clause is, for example, the kind of clause that comes after a verb like make or find.

Examples:

    Incorrect: This hot weather is making me hard to concentrate.

    Correct: This hot weather is making it hard for me to concentrate.

    Correct: This hot weather is making it hard (X) to concentrate.

    Correct: I am finding it hard to concentrate.

 가목적 it 를 쓴 경우로 부정사구를 동사뒤에 쓰면 의미불통이 되므로 가목적을 씀

For more about infinitive verb and infinitive clauses, keep reading below.

Background: What are infinitive clauses?

Like any verb, an infinitive denotes an action or state which involves one or more people, places, or things. For example, Lisa reads and You eat. But because the infinitive is a dependent verb–in other words, it is not the main verb in an independent clause–it often appears where there is no subject noun or pronoun expressed. In such cases, the logical subject of the infinitive verb is understood from its context.

One such case is when the subject of both verbs would be the same:

Examples:

    Incorrect: I love for me to read books.

    Correct: I love (X) to read books.

본문 주어나 부정사의 의미상의 주어가 같기에 쓸 필요가 없음


Another case is when a direct object after the main clause verb would be the same as the subject of the infinitive verb:

Examples:

    Incorrect: I asked my dad for him to help me with my homework.

    Correct: I asked my dad (X) to help me with my homework.

목적 뒤에 온 부정사의 동작자는 목적이 되므로 부정사의 의미상의 주어를 쓰지 않음

Another case is when the writer is making a generalization. In other words, the subject of the infinitive verb could be anyone or anything:

Examples:

    Too wordy: It’s always a good idea for you to back up your computer files.

    Better: It’s always a good idea (X) to back up your computer files.

부정사의 동작자를 일반화/일반인으로 하면 부정사의 동작자를 지명할 필요가 없음


In all other cases, however, there needs to be a subject before the infinitive verb.

Example:

    It’s unusual for a ballet dancer to weigh two hundred and fifty pounds.


위 경우는 부정사의 동작자 지명이 없으면 의미불통됨


Don’t forget that the infinitive subject is preceded by the preposition for. 전치사 필요

Examples:

    Incorrect: It’s unusual (X) a ballet dancer to weigh two hundred and fifty pounds.

    Correct: It’s unusual for a ballet dancer to weigh two hundred and fifty pounds.

Also don’t forget that the infinitive subject, if it is a personal pronoun, must be in the  object case (i.e., them, us, her, him, me) and not subject case (they, we, he, she, I).

전치사의 목적이므로 목적격을 씀

Example:

    Incorrect: It’s unusual for he to help me with my homework.

    Correct: It’s unusual for him to help me with my homework.

[제임스]

많은 도움이 되었습니다^^
기회가 되시면 부정관사 및 복수 용법에 대해서도 언급해 주시기 바랍니다. 문법책에서는 기본설명이 있지만 막상 작문을 할 때 명사에 따라서는 부정관사와 복수 형태를 구분해 사용하는 것이 그리 쉽지가 않은 것 같습니다.

[soso]

질문방에 예문과 함께 올리시면 답변해 드리겠습니다

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네, 앞으로 문의사항이 있으면 질문방에 올리겠습니다.