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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.
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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."
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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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