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Phxsunstoon Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

There're

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There are cookies in the...
There're cookies in the...

I have never used "there're" in my life, but since there is "there's" would there also be "there're"? No matter what, "there're" just looks strange to me, and I would not know how you even pronounce it.
  

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I avoid it, too. html

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I avoid it, too.
But here is an author who has used it in a description of the misuse of "there's"
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/there's.html
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It doesn't seem particularly odd to me, in spoken English.

Clive
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phxsunstoon"there're" just looks strange to me, and I would not know how you even pronounce it.
I don't think I can pronounce it either, which is why I don't use it. I say there are.

In casual speech, there's substitutes for there are, but I don't advise you use that substitution unless you have it clear in your mind that it's no
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I pronounce the last part to rhyme with error.
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This is slightly off-topic, but I think the source AS quoted is a little harsh when he says, "People often forget that “there’s” is a contraction of “there is” and mistakenly say “there’s three burrs caught in your hair” when they mean “there’re” (“there are”). In spoken BrE, the contracted there's (though not the uncontracted there is) before plural nouns is acceptable in informal c

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