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Expletive
expletive

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a term
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expletive
a term

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    word that doesn't add to the meaning of a sentence
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    An expletive (also known as a dummy word) is a part of speech whose members have no meaning, but complete a sentence to make it grammatical [Crystal 1997,127;].
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