Question about sentences
Dear all,
The following sentence is taken from a letter of a telecom company named BSNL. I would like to know whether"there" is a correct usage here.
"Recently, there has been published in media about closure of BSNL."
Thank you.
Top answer
That sentence is incorrect. "there" is not in itself necessarily incorrect, but the sentence does not say what has been published. Also, articles are missing.
- That sentence is incorrect.
- "there" is not in itself necessarily incorrect, but the sentence does not say what has been published.
- Also, articles are missing.
- This would be possible: Recently, there have been reports published in the media about the closure of BSNL.
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That sentence is incorrect. "there" is not in itself necessarily incorrect, but the sentence does not say what has been published. Also, articles are missing. This would be possible:
Recently, there have been reports published in the media about the closure of BSNL.
0cat navy 425I would like to know whether "there" is a correct usage here.
"there" looks OK, but the sentence is not right, and it should be rewritten without the "there" construction.
Recently, articles about the closure of BSNL have been published.
"in the media" is about the same as "published" so you can write have been published
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