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Questions about the existential "there," as found in phases like "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
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What is the grammatical subject in these phrases: "what is there to eat?" and "who is at the...
What is there to eat?
The subject is clearly what.
Fairly recently, some linguists have chosen to call there the subject in simple existential sentences, like this:
There is one person in the room. …
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"There is/are more than one". What's the difference?
This question is more complex than it may appear. There seems to be consensus that a singular verb should be used in formal writing whenever the subject of a sentence is more than one [noun], or at le …