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Beyazgul Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

locative adverb or the dummy pronoun

0i would like to know if the 'there' in the following sentences is locative adverb or dummy pronoun. can some one please help me.02br
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00There he is02br
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02br 02br 00at that same time i didn't understand 01font 00There goes our last chance of saving the match 02font 00exactly. 0-

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0i don't agree you about dummy pronoun, i know that it indicates a location.02br
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00at that same time i didn't understand 01font00There goes our last chance of saving the match 02font00exactly. What did you mean?0-
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0 sory i never made the sentences my self. its from the text book 0-
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0 In the first setence, "there" is a locative adverb and in the second sentence it is a dummy pronoun (I think). Someone else can probably give you a better answer.0-
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0 I would say that both are locative adverbs. The second one is less obviously locative, however, since it doesn't mean literally 01i00in that place02i00 but rather 01i00in that 01u00event02u02i00, i.e., 01i00because of that event02i00. In any case, it is not dummy 01i00there02i00, a
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