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Krissy Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Confused between "there's" and "there are."

Hi. I'm pretty confused between "there's" and "there are." Isn't it that when there is a plural form in a sentence, you use "there are?" How come I see some people use "there's?" Like for example: (1) There's so many dogs like her here in Paris.
(2) There's so many fish in the sea.
Are there any exemptions with regards to the usage of "there's?" Please enlighten me. Thanks!
  

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The use of the contractions there’s , here’s , and where’s with plural nouns is very common in spoken English but is grammatically incorrect, as you suspected.

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  • The use of the contractions there’s , here’s , and where’s with plural nouns is very common in spoken English but is grammatically incorrect, as you suspected.
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The use of the contractions there’s, here’s, and where’s with plural nouns is very common in spoken English but is grammatically incorrect, as you suspected.
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To understand the there is and there are you need to understand that this is a subject-verb agreement rule (a singular noun takes a singular verb and a plural noun takes a plural verb). Some subjects can be harder to find; some subjects come after the verb. The words there or here at the beginning of a sentence often signal inverted word order.

So I highlighted the
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phxsunstoonThere is so many fish in the sea. (correct)
No. There are so many fish in the sea. 'Fish' is a perfectly acceptable and natural plural form of 'fish' (as 'sheep' is of 'sheep'. 'Fishes' exists, but is less commonly used. You can't say that a word is used non-countably and then use it with 'many'!

'Fish' can be non-count
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Are there any exemptions with regards to the usage of "there's?" Please enlighten me. Thanks!

Are there any exemptions with regard to the usage of "there's?" Please enlighten me. Thanks!
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Are there any exemptions with regard to the usage of "there's"?

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