Anshul1223333 wrote:
in A] what is 'it' referring to?
is 'it' a placeholder?
"It", in this context, is trying to stand for the entire idea of reliance on prescriptions for commercial success. That entire idea is definitely not a single NOUN, so there's no way the proNOUN "it" can stand for that idea.
No 'placeholder'.
The structures in which "it" is allowed to be a placeholder (which doesn't stand for
anything) are VERY specific. All of them have the placeholder
it in front. For example:
It is not easy for adult learners to memorize thousands of Chinese characters.It was astonishing that everybody arrived on time to yesterday's meeting.Quote:
in B] does we get a sense of comparison right that - ''what happens in the case of traditional pharmacies same happens in the case of online drugstores
That's clearly the intention here. "
With the case...", however, doesn't make sense. (Consider how the word
case is used in everyday language, e.g., for court cases or case studies in a class... You can say something IS the case; you can also talk about what happens IN certain cases; but I can't think of any situation in which "WITH the case..." would make any sense)