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1.1 ! root 1: Expletives are words that have no content. For instance, ! 2: "it" and "there" are often used as expletives in sentences ! 3: such as "It is dark" and "There are three solutions to this ! 4: puzzle." In these sentences, "it" and "there" have no ! 5: content; they are simply linguistic placeholders. ! 6: ! 7: Expletives are sometimes necessary, e.g., "It is ! 8: raining." Often, however, they add unnecessary words to a ! 9: sentence: "There are three solutions to this puzzle" can ! 10: easily be shortened to "This puzzle has three solutions." ! 11: ! 12: To find all the expletives counted by this program, ! 13: type the following command after this program is finished. ! 14: ! 15: style -e filename
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