There's someone knows it.

"There's someone knows it".

I don't think there is any justification for this. It's bad grammar.

Hi,

This seem to me like a very old-fashioned and literary-sounding structure..

eg Here is part of a long-ago poem by Lewis Carroll.
Matilda Jane, you needn’t mind,
For, you’re so deaf and dumb and blind,
There’s someone loves y

pructusthe secret of this sentence structure?

I believe it's used mostly in some regions of England. It's not standard.

It'll be Nigel said it. (It's probably Nigel who said it.)

CJ

CliveMatilda Jane

Thanks for the link! I'm quite a fan of LC (CD), and I didn't know this poem. I think it may become one of my favorites.

CJ

Dear AlpheccaStars, Clive and CJ!!

Thanks so much...

And sorry for late reply...

Recently, I have been out of access to the internet...

How does this kind of justification sound to you native speakers?

"There's THAT someone knows it".

Justification as if "There's" is almost identical with "It is".

"There's someone knows it" = "There's

Well, I wouldn't say that anything you write is 'simply absurd', pructus...but I'm not very happy with your trail of logic. "There's someone knows it" = There is someone that knows it.

Hello, Pructus:

I thought that you would like to know what the great grammarian George Oliver Curme wrote in his 1931 masterpiece

A Grammar of the English Language: "Earlier in the period, this construction was not infrequent in the subject

relation."

He then gave many examples from writers. Here are two that may interest you:

"Ther

Thanks so much, Mister Micawber!!

And James M, for the tip about Curme!!

pructus"There's someone knows it"

I used to tell my students that even though some authors omit the relative pronoun when it is the subject of a restrictive relative clause, it is wise to avoid this when writing essays.

CB