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Ticce Posted 4 years ago
Grammar
There is the/an escape
We are trapped. The doors are locked. How can we get out?
(With which one of the two sentences below would you continue the idea?)
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There is an escape hatch. We can use that to escape.
2
There is the emergency escape hatch. We can escape that way
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Ticce With which one of the two sentences below would you continue the idea? 1 2 is not bad either. CJ
- Ticce With which one of the two sentences below would you continue the idea?
- 1 2 is not bad either.
- CJ
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TicceWith which one of the two sentences below would you continue the idea?
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2 is not bad either.
CJ
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The 'there' in 1 is "existential there", i.e., the escape hatch exists (somewhere unspecified by the sentence).
As I read it, the 'there' in 2 is "locative there", i.e., in that place, as if pointing to the escape hatch.
CJ
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