The use of it as object

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The following sentence is from the online Longmans dictionary.

He found it increasingly difficult to read, for his eyes were failing.

Is the part of sentence "it increasingly difficult to read" a noun phrase as an object? I know the sentence is correct but what is the role of "it" and its relation with the following part of the sentence.

Kazuto Kirigaya · Answer

The “it” is being used to refer to something (an object) that was referred to earlier. In this sentence, the author is describing the object (it) in more detail than the sentence it originated in as not to create a run on sentence.

Answered by Kazuto Kirigaya on November 23, 2021

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