what does this entence mean?
Impersonal simply indicates a part of speech which does not change according to grammatical person.
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Therefore, impersonal verbs have only one conjugation: the third person singular indefinite, or il, which in this case is equivalent to “it” in English.
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Impersonal Pronouns
Impersonal pronouns can be substituted for nouns or noun phrases that refer to things other than people.
Common impersonal pronouns are it, this, that, these, those, they and so on.
For example:
The window was smashed by vandals. It was repaired promptly.
In these two sentences the impersonal pronoun ‘it’ is substituted for the noun ‘window’. In the first sentence the subject of the sentence is ‘the window’. In the second sentence the subject remains ‘the window’, but the words do not need to be repeated.
A pronoun is said to take the subjective case because it acts as the subject of the next sentence.
An impersonal pronoun can be used without the meaning being lost because the antecedent (in this case the subject of the sentence) has already been established in the first sentence.
In some other languages (necessarily null subject language and typically pro-drop languages), such as Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan, Catalan, Italian and Romanian, an impersonal verb takes no subject at all, but it is conjugated in the third-person singular, which is much as though it had a third-person, singular subject.
An impersonal verb is different from a defective verb in that with an impersonal verb, only one possible syntactical subject is meaningful (either expressed or not), whereas with a defective verb, certain choices of subject might not grammatically possible, because the verb does not have a complete conjugation.
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Other than that maybe she was having a bad day?:)
You can say “he got, she got, they got, we got, I got.” but the “got” doesn’t change.
“Am” is personal.
If you want to change the subject you have to change the verb too, like “I am, you are, he is”.
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