Plural/singular nouns
Are both of these correct?
There was a lion and giraffes.
There were a lion and giraffes.
(I'm aware that putting the plural nouns in the front of the sentence would be a better option)
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Hi The plural must be formally correct but, in London, we do use 'There +be' in the singular to describe situations that involve plurals, especially with an apostrophe - There's many museums to visit here I'd say that's natural informal speech Dave
- Hi The plural must be formally correct but, in London, we do use 'There +be' in the singular to describe situations that involve plurals, especially with an apostrophe - There's many museums to visit here I'd say that's natural informal speech Dave
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Hi
The plural must be formally correct but, in London, we do use 'There +be' in the singular to describe situations that involve plurals, especially with an apostrophe
- There's many museums to visit here
I'd say that's natural informal speech
Dave
0anonymousI'm aware that putting the plural nouns in the front of the sentence would be a better option
I'm not aware of that. These are the natural choices:
There was a lion and some giraffes.
There were some giraffes and a lion.
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