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- phrase contraction of
there is - phrase contraction of
there has - phrase proscribed contraction of
there are Seethere're .
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Examples
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The phrase "there's an app for that" has become a popular punch line and much of the reason for that can be attributed to Fred and Paul Jacobs and their creativity.
Rabbi Jason Miller: Detroit Brothers Produce Over 500 Mobile Apps Rabbi Jason Miller 2011
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The phrase "there's an app for that" has become a popular punch line and much of the reason for that can be attributed to Fred and Paul Jacobs and their creativity.
Rabbi Jason Miller: Detroit Brothers Produce Over 500 Mobile Apps Rabbi Jason Miller 2011
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"In the longer-term there's actually no fundamental conflict between companies and regulators," Gross-Selbeck said at the conference.
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"Longer term there's going to be demand" for nuclear power, Caldwell's Kinsey said.
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"Near-term there's still a lot of reason for gold to outperform other commodities because we don't think that problems are being resolved."
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He says in the long term there's a risk that might change if the U.S. doesn't get its national debt under control.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"Near term there's going to be a little volatility."
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He says in the long term there's a risk that might change if the U.S. doesn't get its national debt under control.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"Near-term there's still a lot of reason for gold to outperform other commodities because we don't think that problems are being resolved."
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With more and more information available in English, there's less reason to learn Spanish and, as a consequence, less opportunity to understand the local culture.
qroqqa commented on the word there's
Quirk of grammar: this behaves differently from its uncontracted origin 'there is' in that it freely accepts a plural co-subject*. So 'There's three men in the garden' is grammatical, whereas it's not with 'There is'.
* I'm at work so can't check what the proper name for this item is: the 'three men' in my example. The subject is the noun 'there' (sic - it's a noun, a pronoun to be precise). The other is co-subject, associated subject, extrapolated subject?
January 9, 2009
reesetee commented on the word there's
It still sounds ungrammatical to me.
January 10, 2009
yarb commented on the word there's
I agree, rt. I was always taught to say "there are" (or "there're" if I must contract) instead of "there's" for a plural subject. It didn't stop me, though.
January 10, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word there's
Saying it is one thing; in writing, it should be "there are." But non-standard speech, general conversation... eh. Not as annoying as "try and."
January 10, 2009
reesetee commented on the word there's
True. In some conversations, you'd never guess I'm an editor. ;-)
January 10, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word there's
I've never really liked the construction "There is..." to indicate existence. I love English, but I think of this as one of English's little foibles. Indicating the existence of something by constructing a meaningless subject and relegating the actual subject of your sentence to being the object? Please. Give me a break. :-)
But now, I'm beginning to expect that English is evolving a more elegant solution. "There's" is now being used not as a grammatical subject, but rather as a rough equivalent to the existential quantifier of symbolic logic, ∃, which means "there exists".
This suggests that "There's" does not (necessarily) equal "There is".
If my hypothesis turns out to be correct, then I see no reason why "There's" should be forced to agree with the number of the subject it's describing.
Thoughts?
January 10, 2009