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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
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Note that existential there may take either a singular or plual verb.

Why is there no (definite) article preceding the noun in bold?

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For the same reason you don't say the everything. There is a pronoun, not a noun. Pronouns do not normally take an article.

— Cool Breeze

  • For the same reason you don't say the everything.
  • There is a pronoun, not a noun.
  • Pronouns do not normally take an article.
  • CB
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For the same reason you don't say the everything. There is a pronoun, not a noun. Pronouns do not normally take an article.

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'there' is a pronoun here?? What is it's antecedent? I thought this was a noun, naming what 'there' is
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English 1b3'there' is a pronoun here?? What is it's antecedent? I thought this was a noun, naming what 'there' is

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7. (used to introduce a sentence or clause in which the verb comes before its subject or has no complement): There is no hope.
(Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

If you want to call it som
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I'm very sorry to disagree, but I just can't see how it is a pronoun Emotion: sad

'there' can function as a pronoun, but in this sentence
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I'd say

Note that the existential there.... (= note that the word there)


There is just the name of the existential. I see nothing else there.
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English 1b3I'm very sorry to disagree, but I just can't see how it is a pronoun
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