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Tenacious Learner Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Question (6). Unit 5.

Hi Teachers,

According to the question both answers are fine, right?

How many demostrators are there?

a) There is only a handful of them.

b) There is a handful.

Thanks in advance
  

Top answer

Yes. 'There are' is also a natural response.

— Mister Micawber

  • Yes.
  • 'There are' is also a natural response.
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Yes. 'There are' is also a natural response.
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Hi Mister Micawber,

Thank you for your reply.

Could you tell why 'there are' is also a natural response, if the sentence has '.. a handful of them'

Thanks in advance

TS
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Because the native speaker does not focus on grammatical concord, but on the notional concord with 'demonstrators'.
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Hi Mister Micawber,

Thank you for the explanation. That's real English!

TS
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