Pronoun

1. The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a non-human entity, to an inanimate thing with no or unknown sex or gender.

   Put it over there.

   Take each day as it comes.

2. The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a human entity of unknown sex or gender.

   She took the baby and held it in her arms.

3. Used to refer to oneself when identifying oneself, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.

   It's me. John.

4. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement.

   It is nearly 10 o’clock.

   It’s very cold today.

   It’s lonely without you.

5. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object.

   It is easy to see how she would think that.

   I find it odd that you would say that.

   He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.

See Wiktionary:English inflection for other personal pronouns.

See also

• he
• her
• him
• I
• me

• she
• thee
• them
• they
• thou

• us
• we
• ye
• you

Noun

1. The person or people who chase and try to catch the other players in the playground game of .

   In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…

2. the game of tag itself.

   Let's play it at breaktime.

3. IT (used by schoolchildren).

   What have we got next? Art then it.