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Sunsail Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
There's / there are
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His response - "I can't say everything. You understand? There's things I can't say
"there is things I can't say" is this correct? should it be not "there are things.."
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His response - "I can't say everything. You understand? There's things I can't say
"there is things I can't say" is this correct? should it be not "there are things.."
Kind Regards
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Yes, it should be "there are things." In conversation people are sometimes careless about grammar.
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the whole sentence becomes quite confusing when you are not cleared about the number of things you are talking about.
if you know that certain number of things were involved in doing something then you should use according to it otherwise it becomes
confusing for the listener to interpret whether you are talking about singular object of plural object.
so it is very important to have
if you know that certain number of things were involved in doing something then you should use according to it otherwise it becomes
confusing for the listener to interpret whether you are talking about singular object of plural object.
so it is very important to have
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sunsailHis response - "I can't say everything. You understand? There's things I can't sayIt's ok. In informal spoken English, it's common to use "there's" to mean either "there is" or "there are". But notice you have to use the contraction! You can't use "there is" instead of "there are", but you can use "there's".
And this is part of informal English, so
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