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Mthomas Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Is 'there' ever a subject?

For example, would "There is a reduction in teaching load for newly appointed faculty" be a complete sentence?
  

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No, "there" as presented in never a subject. "

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No, "there" as presented in never a subject. Turn the sentence around: A reduction is there...."
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"there" acts as a subject, yes, a sort of "dummy subject".

Note that to form a question, you invert the order of the subject and verb:

Is there a reduction in ...?

CJ
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