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Pronouns can serve various roles beyond simple substitution. In the sentence "It is rai...

Pronouns can serve various roles beyond simple substitution. In the sentence "It is raining quite heavily outside", the pronoun "It" is categorized as:


A

Anaphoric, because it refers back to a previously mentioned atmospheric condition.


B

Cataphoric, because it points forward to the state of the weather.


C

A prop/empty "it" (dummy subject), which satisfies the syntactic requirement of a subject without having semantic content.


D

An expletive subject in a cleft sentence construction.