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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

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There are many rules and exceptions to articles usage.

please explain to me the grammatical form and function of "there" here?

which meaning of "there" is used here?

thanks

  

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There are many rules and exceptions to articles usage. "There" is a dummy pronoun serving the syntactic purpose of filling the subject position. It has no meaning as such, but is used to assert the existence of something -- in this case 'the many rules and exceptions to articles usage'.

— BillJ

  • There are many rules and exceptions to articles usage.
  • "There" is a dummy pronoun serving the syntactic purpose of filling the subject position.
  • It has no meaning as such, but is used to assert the existence of something -- in this case 'the many rules and exceptions to articles usage'.
  • For obvious reasons, such clauses are called 'existential' clauses.
  • Your particular example has no basic version, cf.
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There are many rules and exceptions to articles usage.

"There" is a dummy pronoun serving the syntactic purpose of filling the subject position. It has no meaning as such, but is used to assert the existence of something -- in this case 'the many rules and exceptions to articles usage'. For obvious reasons, such clauses are called 'existential' clauses.

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