there is/are going to

Hi Chariot

Are + buses (plural).

CB

Thanks. But "buses" follows the verb infinitive "be" :

There is/are going to be more buses on this line. In this sample sentence, "be" remains infinitive regardless the number of the noun that follows.

Did you mean that because "buses" is plural, the "be" that follows "There" should be "are" accordingly? I thought that "buses" is proceeded by "be" infinitive, and thus "b

Hi Chariot

You asked whether it should be 'is going to be' or 'are going to be', so I'm sure CB meant this:
There are going to be more buses on this line.

That sentence refers to the future.

To refer to a present situation, you could say this:
There are (now) more buses on this line.

Dear Chariot,

Besides 'will' , we also use 'be going to' to express future.

EX:
Now:
- I play ...
- he draws ...
- there is a bus ...
- there are buses ...

Future:
- I am going to play ...
- he is going to

YankeeYou asked whether it should be 'is going to be' or 'are going to be', so I'm sure CB meant this:
There are going to be more buses on this line.

Thanks, Yankee. I'm too lazy to write complete sentences.

CB

Which form of Be is correct? why?

are, because the verb in a there construction must agree in number with the following noun(s).
(going, to, be, and more, which come between the main verb and the noun buses, are not nouns.)

Hence, the correct agreement is as shown below.

There are buses

Thanks everyone. Now I understand that in the "There be" construction, the BE and other verbs that take the place of BE are the main verbs, and the nouns following them agree with them.

Originally I thought "going to do" can be followed by either plural nouns or singular nouns because "do" stands for a verb infinitive. In the case of the verb "be", its infinitive is BE, which is not aff