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Silak12 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Dummy subject there?

Hi, everyone.Could you tell me whether the "there" in the sentence is dummy or an adverb?
There needs to be some explanation for this phenomenon.
Thanks!
  

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There needs to be some explanation for this phenomenon . "There" is a dummy pronoun functioning as subject. This kind of clause with "there" as subject is called the 'presentational' construction.

— BillJ

  • There needs to be some explanation for this phenomenon .
  • "There" is a dummy pronoun functioning as subject.
  • This kind of clause with "there" as subject is called the 'presentational' construction.
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There needs to be some explanation for this phenomenon.

"There" is a dummy pronoun functioning as subject.

This kind of clause with "there" as subject is called the 'presentational' construction.

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