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“It”. Hi, there Which of these sentences is right? I find IT simply beyond imagination the greed of all these big corporations. OR I find simply beyond imagination the greed of all these big corporations. Thank you

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Hello Fernando! I agree that the first sentence is a little bit awkward. For the sentence to be more natural, I would write it like this: "I find the greed of all these big corporations hard to imagine." or "I find the greed of these big corporations hard to believe." I hope that helps!
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Hi Fernando, Although they are both correct, the second sentence is more formal while the first sentence more colloquial. Think of the "it" in the first sentence as functioning like a dummy subject, although the sentence already has its subject in "I." More specifically, "it" functions here as a pronoun whose antecedent--the greed of all these big corporations--comes later in the sentence as opposed to earlier. Sometimes everyday spoken English can be strange in this way.
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I like your first example, "I find IT simply beyond imagination the greed of all these big corporations." Check out my teacher profile www.italki.com/teacherhelpme :-)
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I agree with Michael. Also... If you want to use IT, that's okay, but "the greed of all these big corporations" would likely already have been implied in your text/conversation. In which case you wouldn't really need to write "the greed of all these big corporations." You would just say, "I find it beyond imagination." Both your sentences are very understandable, just wordy. : )
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"I find it impossible to imagine the greed of all these big corporations" is a colloquially acceptable alternative that retains the "it". Here "it" refers to "to imagine". What is impossible? To imagine the greed.

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