IT is an abbreviation for information technology. It is a third person singular pronoun. It is used as the subject or object of a verb, or as the object of a preposition
You use it with some verbs that need a subject or object, although there is no noun that it refers to. Of course, as it turned out, three-fourths of the people in the group were psychiatrists
You use it in expressions such as it's not that or it's not simply that when you are giving a reason for something and are suggesting that there are several other reasons. It's not that I didn't want to be with my family
if it wasn't for: see be. Italy (in Internet addresses). information technology. information technology the study or use of electronic processes and equipment for storing information and making it available
You use it when you are telling someone who you are, or asking them who they are, especially at the beginning of a phone call. You also use it in statements and questions about the identity of other people. `Who is it?' he called. --- `It's your neighbor.' Hello Freddy, it's only me, Maxine
emphasis When you are emphasizing or drawing attention to something, you can put that thing immediately after it and a form of the verb `be'. It was the country's rulers who devised this system
You use it before certain nouns, adjectives, and verbs to introduce your feelings or point of view about a situation. It was nice to see Steve again It seems that you are letting things get you down
You use it to refer to a child or baby whose sex you do not know or whose sex is not relevant to what you are saying. She could, if she wanted, compel him, through a court of law, to support the child after it was born
You use it to refer to an object, animal, or other thing that has already been mentioned. It's a wonderful city, really. I'll show it to you if you want My wife has become crippled by arthritis. She is embarrassed to ask the doctor about it
You use it to refer in a general way to a situation that you have just described. He was through with sports, not because he had to be but because he wanted it that way
You use it as the subject of a link verb to describe the weather, the light, or the temperature. It was very wet and windy the day I drove over the hill to Milland It's getting dark. Let's go inside
[ it, &t ] (pronoun.) before 12th century. From Middle English it, from Old English hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Low Saxon it (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), German es (“it”). More at he.