Are vs are there
Which question is written correctly in the following context: Customers sitting at a table on a restaurant.
1. How many customers are (sitting) on the table?
2. How many customers are there on the table (sitting)?
In sentence # 2, by "...there" I mean existence, not the deictic "there" as in location. Note that in # 1, I do not want to use the verb sit. I just want to use the verb are.
Please let me know.
Top answer
Both are fine: just two slightly different ways of saying the same thing. Incidentally, we would more naturally say "at the table".
- Both are fine: just two slightly different ways of saying the same thing.
- Incidentally, we would more naturally say "at the table".
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Both are fine: just two slightly different ways of saying the same thing.
Incidentally, we would more naturally say "at the table".
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