Look at this cell phone. It's like a chameleon.
- What do you mean by that?
-It changes its color accoring to the temperature. It's yellow now, but when it's hot, it becomes red. But when it's cold, it changes into blue.
- Wow! I just can't believe it!
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In this dialogue what is the meanings of the following expressions:
1. when it's hot.
2. when the cellphone is hot.
3. when the weather is hot.
4. when it's cold
5. when the cell phone is cold
6. when the weather is cold
(What does 'it' refer to? the cellphone or the weather or the temperature? Does 'it' refer to the cell phone? Or does it refer to the weather because 'it' is an impersonal pronoun which doesn't refer to anything.)
1 answer
It is meant to refer to the weather, but also can be interpreted to refer to the cellphone. If the air temperature is hot or cold, whatever is in that air gets hot or cold, too. In this case, it probably means both the air and the phone, but really refers to weather/air temperature.