Timeline for Why is/are there tens of thousands of dead women and children? [duplicate]

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May 23 at 1:31	history	left closed in review	fev Yosef Baskin jimm101		Duplicate
May 22 at 12:30	review	Reopen votes
May 23 at 1:31
May 22 at 12:29	comment	added	Araucaria - Him		In constructions which have the dummy word there as subject, the verb usually agree with the noun phrase to its right. So, here that would be the plural form are. However, in speech (and in some not very formal writing) it is grammatical in modern English to use singular agreement in such cases as long as the verb is cliticised onto the subject - in other words as long as we see "There's two" and not "There is two".
May 21 at 9:42	comment	added	Edwin Ashworth		See Why are there more of them ... vs Why is there more of them ..., itself closed as a duplicate of There are so many ... vs There is so many ... (with a nod to 'There's so many ....').
May 21 at 7:40	history	closed	Gio KillingTime Chenmunka		Duplicate of Which sentence is correct and why (is VS are) [duplicate]
May 21 at 7:18	review	Close votes
May 21 at 7:40
May 21 at 6:53	comment	added	Gio		“Tens of thousands … looks plural!
May 21 at 3:06	history	asked	ronald christenkkson	CC BY-SA 4.0