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There is a boy and a girl or there are a boy and a girl?
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We aren't too fussy about that. What seems to be grammatically plural often becomes singular if we simply think of it that way. In speech, it's normally "there's" for "there is", if for no other reason than because "there're" is hard to say.
- We aren't too fussy about that.
- What seems to be grammatically plural often becomes singular if we simply think of it that way.
- In speech, it's normally "there's" for "there is", if for no other reason than because "there're" is hard to say.
- In formal speech and writing, "there are" becomes much more likely.
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We aren't too fussy about that. What seems to be grammatically plural often becomes singular if we simply think of it that way. In speech, it's normally "there's" for "there is", if for no other reason than because "there're" is hard to say. In formal speech and writing, "there are" becomes much more likely.
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