Examples
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Jason Miller: Detroit Brothers Produce Over 500 Mobile Apps
“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.”
“Longer term there's going to be demand" for nuclear power, Caldwell's Kinsey said.”
“Near term there's going to be a little volatility.”
“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.”
“In the longer-term there's actually no fundamental conflict between companies and regulators," Gross-Selbeck said at the conference.”
“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.”
The Guardian: Most Brits in Spain say no gracias to integration
“In short, there's lots to lose—the U.S. has often struggled in such venues—and little to gain.”
“In short, there's abundant evidence to suggest that we have shifted a bit from a culture that emphasized self-effacement - I'm no better than anybody else, but nobody is better than me - to a culture that emphasizes self-expansion.”
“This is perhaps one of the most disappointing power-ups of the series, lasting a bit too long and being relatively useless unless there's a kart or projectile right next to you which you can thwack away.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘there's’.
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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quirks of grammar
Particularly interesting grammatical quirks.
Yes, I said interesting. Who are you looking at so strangely?likely, must, rumoured, stride, there's, try, word, bush, hamstring, let's, 's, sheep and 4 more...
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funky-monkey95's list
cornucopia, single, dilate, dream, thirst, sing, dilinquent, trusted, sight, forseen, sunshine, basket and 50 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for there's.
pterodactyl 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? Jan 10, 2009
reesetee True. In some conversations, you'd never guess I'm an editor. ;-) Jan 9, 2009
chained_bear 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." Jan 9, 2009
yarb 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. Jan 9, 2009
reesetee It still sounds ungrammatical to me. Jan 9, 2009
qroqqa 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? Jan 9, 2009