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Moonwalker Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Is this an adjective pronoun?

There is a car

In this simple sentence, what we call 'there' in grammatical term?

I guess it is an adjective pronoun but not sure about it.

Any help?

Thanks in advance
  

Top answer

Someone will come along with the correct terms. It can be taken two ways. There's the "existential there," which says simply that something does exist.

— Avangi

  • Someone will come along with the correct terms.
  • It can be taken two ways.
  • There's the "existential there," which says simply that something does exist.
  • " "There's a problem with my TV.
  • " Then there's the simple adverb that tells "where" something is.
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Someone will come along with the correct terms.

It can be taken two ways.

There's the "existential there," which says simply that something does exist. "There's this car in the used car lot downtown that I really want to buy."
"There's a problem with my TV. Can you fix it?"

Then there's the simple adverb that tells "where" something is. "There goes that red ca
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AvangiSomeone will come along with the correct terms.
Avangi, your terms are as correct as anyone's! There are no "correct" terms for these things. I have seen there referred to as "existential" (the term you use), "preparatory there" (I think Curme uses that in his Syntax) and "dummy there." There must be other terms as well. May they all li
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Thank you all

Cheers!Emotion: beer

Actually I was hoping to get a term like subject or object kind of things.

Someone
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