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Is other a verb? Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.

(M2CDPE0902_13) In the sentence taken from the text “Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun”, the pronoun in bold letters refers to the word “other”. Sometimes, though, “it” does not have a referent and serves a grammatical function only, thus being named, for example, “dummy it”. Mark the alternative in which “it” has a referent.

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E) The weather is beautiful today, isn’t it?

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A) When I left the office, it was way past midnight.

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B) I like it better when I don’t have to worry about driving to the beach.

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C) Would it be possible to leave now?

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D) It is too late to try to fix what was damaged.

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