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Teo Posted 19 years ago
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there/they are

0Ivy: Are there fifty floors in this building? Ellen: No, 01i00______02i00 only twenty-five floors. (A) there are (B) there has (C) they are (D) there have02br
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00I think the correct choice is A, but the given answer is C. Can any native speaker make a comment?0-
  

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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Teo12cite 10Ivy: Are there fifty floors in this building? Ellen: No, 11i 10______12i 10 only twenty-five floors. (A) there are (B) there has (C) they are (D) there have12br 12br 10I think the correct choice is A, but the given answer is C.

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  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Teo12cite 10Ivy: Are there fifty floors in this building?
  • Ellen: No, 11i 10______12i 10 only twenty-five floors.
  • (A) there are (B) there has (C) they are (D) there have12br 12br 10I think the correct choice is A, but the given answer is C.
  • 12br 12br 12blockquote 10You're right.
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01cite10Teo12cite10Ivy: Are there fifty floors in this building? Ellen: No, 11i10______12i10 only twenty-five floors. (A) there are (B) there has (C) they are (D) there have12br
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10I think the correct choice is A, but the given answer is C. Can any native speaker make a comment?12br
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0 Choice A is correct. 0-
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0 Hi Teo, your question is interesting, because I noticed something in that structure...01blockquote
01cite10Teo12cite10Ivy: Are there fifty floors in this building? Ellen: No, 11i10______12i10 only twenty-five floors. (A) there are (B) there has (C) they are (D) there have12br
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10I think the correct choic
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0 Koyeen, it wouldn't sound natural to respond to an "Are there?" question with "They are...". Even dropping "floors", we would still tend to say "01i00There are02i00 only twenty-five". The only correct choice for this is (A). 0-
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00No, 11u10there are12u10 only twenty-five floors.12br
10 No, 11u10they are12u10 only twenty-five 11del10floors12del10.12blockquote
10No, Kooyeen. You don't want to do that. That's the pattern in many other languages, but not in English. 05002br
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0No, 01u00there are02u00 only twenty-five floors.02br
00No, 01u00they are02u00 only twenty-five 01del00floors02del00.02br
00In other words, if I had to say "they are", I would leave out "floors"... 02br
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01b01i00I disagree with your reasoning. Even if you were to
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0Aaaaargh! It sounded so good to me 05002br
00Can I say:02br
01b00"The floors are twenty-five"02b02br
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01b00"The number of floors is twenty-five"02b00?02br
00If I can't say that, than I understand why I was wrong. Structures like "They are twenty-five" are so common in Italian, I
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0Sorry, both sound weird in English. The first just sounds plain wrong, and the second sounds like something from a Medieval document!0-
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0 01b00"The number of floors is twenty-five." (01u00correct02u00)02b02br
00If I can't say that, 01i01b00then02b02i00 (not 'than') I understand why I was wrong. 0-
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0It's grammatically correct, but it's 01b01u00not02u02b00 the way you would say it in natural conversation. 02br
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00"How many floors are there?" - "There are twenty-five"02br
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00It's hard to imagine a natural way in which the tortuous question "What is the number of floors in the building?" would come up, but
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