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1. There is a place, next to him, sit there.

2. There is the place, next to him, sit there.

Here is my doubt. We can use a definite noun phrase with 'there' when there means 'in that place', but in (1) indefinite article "a" is used. So how can we say 'there' is an adverb answering to question 'where'?

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

apple lime 4061. There is a place, next to him, sit there.
2. There is the place, next to him, sit there.

There is [a / the] place, next to him. Sit there.

apple lime 406Here is my ~~doubt.~~ question. We can use a definite noun phrase with 'there' when 'there' means 'in that place', but in (1) the indefinite article "a" is used. So how can we say 'there' is an adverb answering to the question 'where'?

A comma or dash shows that 'there' is the same as 'next to him', so it's a place. That suggests that the initial "there" is "locative there", an adverb of place. In the following examples, there is said with greater stress in the first example than in the second.

There is a place — (and it is) next to him.

Without punctuation of this kind we have "existential there".

There is a place next to him.

CJ

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