A few days ago
Me

what does this entence mean?

i dont really understand and i need to do FAST please help me!!

Impersonal simply indicates a part of speech which does not change according to grammatical person.

i got a test and i dont understand this please help!

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A few days ago
General C

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Think you are doing a french test here, and to help you understand impersonal verbs, you have to understand that they have nothing to do with an individual i.e. him, her, me, you. Impersonal simply indicates a part of speech which does not change according to grammatical person.

Therefore, impersonal verbs have only one conjugation: the third person singular indefinite, or il, which in this case is equivalent to “it” in English.

Hope this helps.

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A few days ago
boggle10
If you’re referring to impersonal pronouns then:

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.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
In linguistics, an impersonal verb is a verb that cannot take a true subject, because it does not represent an action, occurrence, or state-of-being of any specific person, place, or thing. In some languages, such as English, French, German and Dutch, an impersonal verb always takes an impersonal pronoun (it in English, il in French, es in German, het in Dutch) as its syntactical subject:

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.

Hope that helps you with the test…. All the best!!

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A few days ago
Redeemer
Basically, impersonal refers to the word “it” because it’s the most ambiguous name you can give something. Also, it refers to nothing specifically. Think of it as you being cold for calling someone “it” all the time, as if he were some sort of creature. You get what I’m saying?
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A few days ago
celesto_moon
your entence confuses me as well. “..according to grammatical person”? I probably just dont get it either, but isn’t that part gramatically incorrect to begin with?
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A few days ago
cindy h
It means that impersonal isn’t bias but the same in any case.
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A few days ago
mld m
Neither do I. Either your leaving a lot out, and/or if we knew specifically what statement it is that your teacher is referring to…..

Other than that maybe she was having a bad day?:)

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A few days ago
bgii_2000
“Got” is impersonal.

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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