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Healer Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

They versus There

They are not so many.

There are not so many.


Are the above grammatical and the same meaning? Any difference in usage is there even if it may be subtle?

  

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healer Are the above grammatical Yes. healer and the same meaning? Can be.

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  • healer Are the above grammatical Yes.
  • healer and the same meaning?
  • Can be.
  • healer Any difference in usage is there even if it may be subtle?
  • It isn't subtle.
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healerAre the above grammatical

Yes.

healerand the same meaning?

Can be.

healerAny difference in usage is there even if it may be subtle?

It isn't subtle. As for meaning, "they" can only mean people, and perhaps by a stretch, other animals. As for register, "they" is quite

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healerThere are not so many.

Normal.

healerThey are not so many.

Old-fashioned or literary. I would avoid this one.

CJ

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