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Jigneshbharati Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

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16:15 Local Time, 05:15 GMT, 10:45 IST:The rain has stopped and the covers are being peeled off. If there's no more rain, play will resume in 15 minutes, game reduced to 15-overs per-side.
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Please explain the use "there is" in "if there is....
When do we use it and what does "there" mean?
  

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I don't know what your mother tongue is, but I hope this helps. As a rule, and English sentence needs a subject. When no subject seems to exist, it or there is usually used as the subject.

  • I don't know what your mother tongue is, but I hope this helps.
  • As a rule, and English sentence needs a subject.
  • When no subject seems to exist, it or there is usually used as the subject.
  • When something is somewhere , there is used if this something is a noun without the definite article or in some cases an indefinite pronoun .
  • There is a car in the street .
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I don't know what your mother tongue is, but I hope this helps. As a rule, and English sentence needs a subject. When no subject seems to exist, it or there is usually used as the subject.

When something is somewhere, there is used if this something is a noun without the definite article or in so

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If there's no more rain, play will resume in 15 minutes ...

This is the dummy pronoun "there", used as the subject of existential clauses, i.e. those that express propositions concerning existence. But "there is" is not a constituent, a unit, but subject and ve

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