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54 questions linked to/from "There Is"/"There are" depends on plurality of the first list element or not?
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Verb Agreement in "There is/are a stapler and a pencil" [duplicate]
There ____ a stapler and a pencil on Mrs. Ford's desk.
I believe I would use the word is to match up with stapler, but I can't remember why.
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Usage of there is vs there are when talking about a list of mixed singular and plural nouns [duplicate]
Is there a rule regarding the use of there is vs there are at the start of a list containing both singular and plural nouns? For example;
There is an apple, an orange, a carrot and some bananas in the ...
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Plurality and "there happens to be" vs "there happen to be" [duplicate]
Imagine we have the sentence
I am hungry, and luckily there happens to be a lot of apple trees nearby.
Should it be "happen to be" or "happens to be" in this instance? I believe ...
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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 exists some people..." or "There exist some people..."?
I know the usage of
This is a new car.
This is singular.
These are some books for you.
These is plural.
Shall we use
There exists some people who agree with me.
There exist some people who ...
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'There are you and me' versus 'There's you and me'
My friend (a native English speaker) and I (a non-native) were working on song lyrics when I came up with the following verse:
'There are just your voice and mine'
He suggested changing 'are' to 'is'...
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Meaning of "… is king"
The word king alone is not an adjective. And since it is countable it should be either a king or the king. So the expressions like "money is king" or "the Lord is king" are ungrammatical. How would ...
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"There was a man known as the 'Toe Suck Fairy'" — is "there" a complement?
To me, man is the subject and it has two verbs — was and known —, making there a complement.
My teacher argued that the verb is "was known".
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"there comes times" or "there come times"? [closed]
There comes times in...
OR
There come times in...
Please help. I do not want to say "There comes a time..."
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"Here is Mrs. Johnson and her husband" or "Here are Mrs. Johnson and her husband"?
Which of these sentences is correct?
Here are Mrs. Johnson and her husband.
Here is Mrs. Johnson and her husband.
Both are listed as correct in an English textbook - but is that really the truth?
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Mixing countability; how to correctly say "there is plenty of rice, earthquakes and typhoons"?
In this question I wrote the following sentence, knowing full well that it has problems.
Where I live right now there is plenty of rice, earthquakes and typhoons.
Both earthquake and typhoon are ...
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Conjugation of answer to "How much money is there?" [duplicate]
I'm using a website - www.ixl.com - to teach my child how to count American coins, amongst other activities. The site also has many questions on English grammar.
One thing that doesn't seem right - ...
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Can altering the syntax of a sentence, without in any way changing the diction used in describing the subject itself, change the subject's number?
There have been debates raging both here and on ELL about this, but the question has, to this point, been focused solely on expletive constructions with compound subjects. This is not intended to ask ...
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Is the question "where is Elmo's legs?" correct usage? [closed]
Is
Where is Elmo's legs?
correct usage?
And how about:
Where's Elmo's legs?
Is that more or less acceptable, and why?
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"Why are there both a somethingA and a somethingB?" vs "Why is there both a somethingA and a somethingB?"
"Why are there both a somethingA and a somethingB?" vs "Why is there both a somethingA and a somethingB?"
What are their differences in usage, meaning and historical prevalence?
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