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Nina_Nia Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

A singular or plural verb?

Hello,

Why it is that in some cases native speakers use a singular verb instead of the plural?

Eg., There's times like....

Here's your shoes...

Thanks
  

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I've noticed this many times too, don't understand why. the only explanation that comes to my mind is that Americans are lazy to conjugate the verb before the noun it takes. Usually when the subject goes before the verb it's easier to conjugate the verb depending on the number of noun you just said before.

— Hailsatyr

  • I've noticed this many times too, don't understand why.
  • the only explanation that comes to my mind is that Americans are lazy to conjugate the verb before the noun it takes.
  • Usually when the subject goes before the verb it's easier to conjugate the verb depending on the number of noun you just said before.
  • But when the verb precedes the subject, you need to think in advance what number of subject you will use.
  • Hence the simplification.
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I've noticed this many times too, don't understand why. the only explanation that comes to my mind is that Americans are lazy to conjugate the verb before the noun it takes.
Usually when the subject goes before the verb it's easier to conjugate the verb depending on the number of noun you just said before.
But when the verb precedes the subject, you need to think in advance what number of
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Most of the time people use "there's + plural noun" out of sheer laziness since there is no working contraction for "there are" and they simply can't be bothered to say or type "there are". Either that or they don't know yet what the rest of the sentence will be as they say it. It's incorrect though.
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