Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.
A signal of a transformation in the structure of a sentence that occurs without changing the meaning. The expletive there shifts the order of subject and verb in a sentence: There were over four thousand runners in the marathon. [COMPARE Over four thousan
a word which serves no grammatical function, but which fills up a sentence or gives emphasis There are five people in my class. Wowee
a grammatically meaningless exclamation or phrase. The most common expletives are the sentence beginnings It is and There is (are).
a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
a word or short phrase that we use to lend emphasis to words on either side of it
ex 'out' + plere 'to fill'; ¶ñ¥Rµü¡N»y§Uµü¡N·P¹Ä»y¡N©»y): An unnecessary word or phrase used as a filler in speaking or writing ('you know') or as an aid to metrical regularity in verse ('oh'); an exclamation or oath.
An unnecessary be-verb phrase such as "It is" or "there is" used to begin a sentence or part of a sentence.
(from Latin explere 'to fill out') A syntactic argument that isn't a semantic argument. See Expletive elements in English for more discussion. feminine gender
Stone that is used as filling in masonry.
The word expletive is currently used in three senses: syntactic expletives, expletive attributives, and "bad language".
