Dan Krueger wrote:
>> Lately I've heard constructions of the following form:
>>
>> "The pitcher had water in...."
>>
>> My intuition would be to state that as:
>>
>> "The pitcher had water in it...."
Yours is a good intuition.
>> Is the "it" really unnecessary?
Yes.
> Why is this any different from "teh pitcher had a frame on...."
That expression makes no sense to me (even ignoring the typo). There's an
"it" missing.
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