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There are no comments / There is no comment
Which is correct?
* "There are no comments."
* "There is no comment."
Which would you use for a web application, i.e. what to display when a blog post or an article has no comment attached?
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Is “there're” (similar to “there's”) a correct contraction?
Q: "Do you have any juice?"
A: "Yes, there's some in the fridge."
Sounds perfectly fine to me, but:
Q: "Do you have any towels?"
A: "Yes, there's some in the closet."
Does not.
I asked ...
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“There are so many” vs. “There is so many”
There are so many questions on this website.
There is so many questions on this website.
The former "sounds right," but the contracted form of the latter does as well:
There's so many ...
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“There is no rule” vs. “there isn't rule”
What are the differences between the two sentences below:
There is no rule.
There isn't rule.
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“There is/are more than one”. What's the difference?
While adding to an Answer to this question, I needed to use the above phrase, and I suddenly realised I was unsure whether to write "is" or "are".
There is more than one way to skin a cat.
If there ...
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Is the sentence “There is a large number of labourers who want to migrate to Japan for work.” correct? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
A number of questions “has been” or “have been” asked?
There is a large number of labourers who want to migrate to Japan for work.
I type ...
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“There’s” or “There are”?
I wanted to get the usage of There’s clarified. I have read sentences like:
There’s a lot of projects on that topic.
It appears to me that There’s applies to a lot of projects, rather than to ...
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Mixing plural and singular list items with a single verb
A friend wants to write,
There is no hardware to purchase, no additional software to install and no key fobs to worry about.
This is awkward because the verb "is" doesn't match up with the third ...
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There is/are one or several apple/~s?
To be clear, among
There is one or several apple.
There are one or several apple.
There is one or several apples.
There are one or several apples.
which is correct?
My guess:
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How to choose verb after “there” in beginning of sentence?
Cambridge "Advanced Grammar in Use" provides following rule in Unit 95C:
If the noun phrase consists of two or more nouns in a list, we use a singular
verb if the first noun is singular or ...
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“Is there” versus “Are there”
Are there any questions I should be asking?
Is there any articles available on the subject?
My instinct is that in the two questions above, it should be 'are' as the subjects of the sentences ...
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“There always come/comes a point”
Which is correct?
There always come a point...
There always comes a point...
Would there be better ways to write this?
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Should I say “there is a handful of…” or “there are a handful of…”?
I want to write that I have handful of somethings. Which of these is the correct form?
There is a handful of somethings.
There are a handful of somethings.
Are both correct?
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Consistency of “There is the same number of elements in… as there are in…”
I'm proofreading this in a friend's paper:
There is the same number of elements in the set of odd numbers as there are in the even numbers.
The same number is singular and it's the thing being ...
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Which is correct: “There are not any employees” vs. “there is not any employee”
Sometimes I see two variants of following sentence:
"there are not any employees" in the department
"there is not any employee" in the department
What is the correct sentence?
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Why put the verb before the subject?
The opening sentence to The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien reads,
In a hole in the ground there lived [verb] a hobbit [subject].
I wonder if there are accepted stylistic purposes for such a structure. ...
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“There is no problem” or “there isn't any problem” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“There is no point in” or “There is not a point in”
What's the difference between there is no problem and there isn't any problem? Are they both ...
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“Is there any proof” versus “are there any proofs”
The stack exchange question "Is there any concrete-solid proofs of this space odyssey?" made me want to edit it to remove the s in proofs (someone with enough flair did), however it made me wonder ...
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Subject–verb agreement — two schools of thought?
I wrote a sentence for our web site that was submitted for proofreading. The proofreader "corrected" my sentence. I asked how sure he was that he was correct and that I was incorrect. He explained ...
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Is it correct to say “There's many a …”? [closed]
Today on GUARDIAN life&style is this teaser:
There's many a garden outbuilding crying out for a makeover.
I'm wondering if this sentence is correct. I think there should either many deleted ...
