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Moon Silk Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

there is or there are

hello everybody.
Can you help me this sentence ? In the sentence I should use " there is or there are". Can you explain why we use it ?

There is smell or flies or there are smell or flies
Lots of thanks to you!
  

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One smell, so there IS a smell. Many flies, so there ARE flies. IS is for singular, ARE is for plural.

— Femtoangstrom

  • One smell, so there IS a smell.
  • Many flies, so there ARE flies.
  • IS is for singular, ARE is for plural.
  • Beware: you say 'there ARE a number of people' because even though there is one number, there are many people!
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One smell, so there IS a smell. Many flies, so there ARE flies.
IS is for singular, ARE is for plural.
Beware: you say 'there ARE a number of people' because even though there is one number, there are many people!
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Your sentences sound weird to me.
"smell" and "flies" are an odd combination.
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Femtoangstrom One smell, so there IS a smell. Many flies, so there ARE flies.IS is for singular, ARE is for plural.Beware: you say 'there ARE a number of people' because even though there is one number, there are many people!
thank you about your opinion. I know that but In a book i saw that it is written in a sentence
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yes, I know , so this is the reason I can't explain why?
This is the sentence which I saw in a book for students.
thank you about your opinion ^_^
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Welcome to the forum, Moon Silk.
I agree with Femtoangstrom. Note also:
There is a smell. There are flies.
There is the smell of garbage. I can hear the flies.
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There is a smell of meat roasting. (one smell, use "is")
There are many flies in the house. Someone left the window open. (More than one fly, use "are")
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