<p>Here's the identifying error question</p>
<p>While it may appear that stewardesses are concerned solely o passengers' comfort, they are in fact extensively schooled in flight safety. </p>
<p>A. While it may
B. concerned solely to
C. are in fact
D. schooled
E. No Error</p>
<p>The answer is B. But what im concened about is what is the antecedent of the word "it" in "while it may".</p>
<p>One more question:</p>
<p>The problem of food and aid distribution is frequently compounded in certain countries where corrupt officials and poor infrastructure making accessing the neediest people all the more challenging. </p>
<p>Is this sentence correct? I think the clause after where is a fragment. Shouldn’t “making” be “make” instead??</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Hi :)</p>
<p>The answer is B because it represents the incorrect use of the idiom “concerned (solely) to” as opposed to “concerned (solely) with”: the correct form.</p>
<p>In your second question/post, you’re correct in saying “make” :)</p>
<p>Hope it helped!</p>
<p>what does “it” in the question refer to?</p>
<p>The stewardesses’ concern for their passengers. The sentence is saying that although stewardesses may seem like they are only concerned with passengers’ comfort, “they are in fact extensively schooled in flight safety.”</p>
<p>There is no antecedent. What’s the antecedant when we say, “It is raining,” or “It is time to leave”? Same thing here.</p>
<p>Oh okay, so not every time “it” has antecedent right?</p>
<p>^ nope! I mean It may seem wrong, but it’s true… 
seriously though… @Sikorsky is right where is the antecedent “It is raining” or “It is time to leave”? or “It is stupid to think bla bla bla”? Sometimes, I suppose, “it” just serves to point out sth rather than substitute a noun… Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Correct. (And, oops, I misspelled *antecedent *above, didn’t I?)</p>
<p>Sometimes the word it can be used in a kind of grammatically meaningless construction called an expletive ([expletive</a> - definition and examples of expletive](<a href=“http://grammar.about.com/od/e/g/expletiveterm.htm]expletive”>Definition and Examples of Expletives in English)). In such a case the it doesn’t really function as a pronoun, and so it doesn’t have an antecedent. It’s kind of like an idiom–an expression that does not mean what it says literally, such as, “I’ve misplaced my cell phone. Could you keep an eye out for it?” </p>
<p>When we say, “It is raining,” we don’t mean that there’s an actual object, previously identified by a noun, that’s raining. “It is raining” is simply the convention we use in English to indicate that rain is one feature of the current weather. Similarly, when the French say, “Il pleut,” there’s no he that is raining.</p>