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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
There?!
Hi.
What does 'there' mean in:
"From the 1889 opening of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, to the opening of the School of Medicine four years later, there emerged the concept of combining research, teaching and patient care. "?
Thanks in advance!
What does 'there' mean in:
"From the 1889 opening of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, to the opening of the School of Medicine four years later, there emerged the concept of combining research, teaching and patient care. "?
Thanks in advance!
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It means nothing; it is called "existential 'their' ", and it serves to move the real subject ('concept') to later in the sentence where sentence stress resides.
- It means nothing; it is called "existential 'their' ", and it serves to move the real subject ('concept') to later in the sentence where sentence stress resides.
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It means nothing; it is called "existential 'their' ", and it serves to move the real subject ('concept') to later in the sentence where sentence stress resides.
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'there' doesn't mean anything. It can be called "expletive 'there' ", as in 'There is a plate on the table'. It just indicates existence in some way. It can be used with certain verbs, and 'emerge' is one of the verbs it can be used with. The subject of the sentence goes after the verb in these constructions.
Here's another example:
On the horizon there appeared a ship.
Here's another example:
On the horizon there appeared a ship.
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Not in the sense you are thinking of. The subject is merely placed in a more communicative position in the utterance. We often don't hear the first word or two that our interlocutor utters.
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