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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
There is or there are
hi
are the following sentences correct?
There are three boxes , four tubes and some water.
Should I use there are or there is? I mean because of water can I use there are?
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There are three boxes, four tubes and some water . Existential "there" takes on the number of the displaced subject, which in this case is a coordination of three noun phrases, two of which are plural, so the verb should be the plural "are".
- There are three boxes, four tubes and some water .
- Existential "there" takes on the number of the displaced subject, which in this case is a coordination of three noun phrases, two of which are plural, so the verb should be the plural "are".
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There are three boxes, four tubes and some water.
Existential "there" takes on the number of the displaced subject, which in this case is a coordination of three noun phrases, two of which are plural, so the verb should be the plural "are".
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