Definition
An impersonal verb is a verb that
- occurs only in third person singular forms
- has no specified agent, and
- has a dummy subject or no subject.
Sources 4
- Pei and Gaynor 1954, 97, 139
- Nida 1949, 168
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 108
- Mish 1991, 604
Glossary term I