it
It is a third person singular pronoun. It is used as the subject or object of a verb, or as the object of a preposition.
1 pron You use it to refer to an object, animal, or other thing that has already been mentioned.
It's a wonderful city, really. I'll show it to you if you want..., My wife has become crippled by arthritis. She is embarrassed to ask the doctor about it...
2 pron You use it to refer to a child or baby whose sex you do not know or whose sex is not relevant to what you are saying.
She could, if she wanted, compel him, through a court of law, to support the child after it was born...
3 pron You use it to refer in a general way to a situation that you have just described.
He was through with sports, not because he had to be but because he wanted it that way...
4 pron You use it before certain nouns, adjectives, and verbs to introduce your feelings or point of view about a situation.
It was nice to see Steve again..., It seems that you are letting things get you down.
5 pron You use it in passive clauses which report a situation or event.
It has been said that stress causes cancer...
6 pron You use it with some verbs that need a subject or object, although there is no noun that it refers to.
Of course, as it turned out, three-fourths of the people in the group were psychiatrists...
7 pron You use it as the subject of `be', to say what the time, day, or date is.
It's three o'clock in the morning..., It was a Monday, so she was at home...
8 pron You use it as the subject of a link verb to describe the weather, the light, or the temperature.
It was very wet and windy the day I drove over the hill to Milland..., It's getting dark. Let's go inside...
9 pron You use it when you are telling someone who you are, or asking them who they are, especially at the beginning of a phone call. You also use it in statements and questions about the identity of other people.
`Who is it?' he called.<emdash10001`It's your neighbor.'..., Hello Freddy, it's only me, Maxine.
10 pron When you are emphasizing or drawing attention to something, you can put that thing immediately after it and a form of the verb `be'., (emphasis)
It was the country's rulers who devised this system...
11 You use it in expressions such as it's not that or it's not simply that when you are giving a reason for something and are suggesting that there are several other reasons.
it's not simply/just that phrase
It's not that I didn't want to be with my family...
12 →
if it wasn't for →
be
do-it-yourself
Do-it-yourself is the same as DIY. n-uncount
IT
IT is an abbreviation for information technology.
it'd
1 It'd is a spoken form of `it would'.
It'd be better for a place like this to remain closed.
2 It'd is a spoken form of `it had', especially when `had' is an auxiliary verb.
Marcie was watching the news. It'd just started.
It-girl (It-girls plural ), It girl Journalists sometimes use It-girl to describe a young woman who is well-known because she goes to the most fashionable places and events and knows famous people.
INFORMAL, JOURNALISM n-count
It-girl Tamara Beckwith was livid at being turned away from the party.
it'll
It'll is a spoken form of `it will'.
It's ages since I've seen her so it'll be nice to meet her in town on Thursday.
it's
1 It's is the usual spoken form of `it is'.
It's the best news I've heard in a long time.
2 It's is the usual spoken form of `it has', especially when `has' is an auxiliary verb.
It's been such a long time since I played.
know-it-all (know-it-alls plural )If you say that someone is a know-it-all, you are critical of them because they think that they know a lot more than other people.
(AM)
INFORMAL n-count
(disapproval)
in BRIT, use know-all
with it , with-it
1 adj If you say that someone is with it, you mean that they are fashionable or know about new things, especially in culture.
INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED
2 adj If someone is not with it, they do not feel alert and therefore fail to understand things.
INFORMAL v-link ADJ, usu with brd-neg
She wasn't really with it. She hadn't taken in the practical consequences.
