Pronoun IT

[Anonymous]

Dear Pete (or Rusty):

I think in these sentences "it" is an impersonal pronoun. Am I right?

1. I didn't mean [it].
2. She has cooled [it] with me.
3. I like [it] when you come home early.

Thank you very much.
Best regards.

[Pete]

Dear Pete (or Rusty):

I think in these sentences "it" is an impersonal pronoun. Am I right?

1. I didn't mean [it].
2. She has cooled [it] with me.
3. I like [it] when you come home early.

Thank you very much.
Best regards.
1. I didn't mean . [I imagine that here there is really an antecedent, whatever you had said previously that you are now apologizing for.]
2. She has cooled [it] with me. [I suppose this is a kind of impersonal [i]it. I imagine an alternative would be to consider "cool it" to be a stand-alone idiom much like a phrasal verb.]
3. I like when you come home early. This one seems anticipatory to me; the word [i]it seems to stand for the whole clause that follows.