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Pleasehelp Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

There's/There are

Are these sentences ok?

Are these sentences are okay?

There's pizza on the table.

There's pizzas on the table.

There are pizzas on the table.

There's candy in the jar.

There's candies in the jar.(sounds very unnatural)

There are candies in the jar.(ditto)
  

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pleasehelp Are these sentences ok? Are these sentences are okay? There's pizza on the table.

  • pleasehelp Are these sentences ok?
  • Are these sentences are okay?
  • There's pizza on the table.
  • Fine.
  • Pizza here is uncountable.
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pleasehelpAre these sentences ok?

Are these sentences are okay?

There's pizza on the table. Fine. Pizza here is uncountable.

There's pizzas on the table. Sounds a bit odd - okay ONLY as a contaction. "There is pizzas" would be wrong.

There are pizzas on the table. Okay grammatically, but a bit unnatural. There are [s
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pleasehelp
Are these sentences are okay?


Can you tell us why you used 2 verbs (are)?
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Typo. Thank you Grammar Geek!

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