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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

There is/exists...

I'm completely confused. There* is the subject in a sentence with there is/are. My teacher says that you need a proper subject with other words. He showed us an example for a wrong sentence which started like this: *There existed..* According to him *there existed* is wrong in this case. But what's wrong about it? Is it the tense? Is this only used in the present tense. I've already heard native speakers say *there exists/exist. Please help me Emotion: sad
  

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* According to him *there existed is wrong in this case. But what's wrong about it? There are 23,000,000 instances of "there exists" on Google.

— CalifJim

  • * According to him *there existed is wrong in this case.
  • But what's wrong about it?
  • There are 23,000,000 instances of "there exists" on Google.
  • The combination is not wrong in itself.
  • There must have been something about the combination of "there exists" with the rest of the sentence that bothered your teacher.
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AnonymousHe showed us an example for a wrong sentence which started like this: There existed..* According to him *there existed is wrong in this case. But what's wrong about it?
There are 23,000,000 instances of "there exists" on Google. The combination is not wrong in itself. There must have been something about the combination of "there exists" with
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