Nov 30, 2011 · It came from an episode of Big Bang Theory; when Penny gets hurt, and asks Sheldon to be more comforting, he starts the conversation with "there, there." What does that …

Mar 20, 2018 · The construction 'there is' or 'there are' is used to indicate existence of a single thing or a plurality of things (countable nouns) respectively. In this case, it seems that the thing …

Dec 12, 2023 · The first there is a dummy there; it's just a marker used as a subject, here in the so-called "existential construction." The second there is a locative there, referring to a …

Is there any articles available on the subject? My instinct is that in the two questions above, it should be 'are' as the subjects of the sentences (questions/articles) are plural.

Is there a case for describing it as a preposition? It is a substitute for a prepositional phrase ('on the table'. 'in the room', 'to Paris', 'in Paris' etc), and like a preposition, and unlike an adverb, it …

Nov 18, 2016 · The word there means something like at that place when it is used with stative verbs. If you want to say something like at that place and in that place, you can just say in there.

Apr 17, 2017 · 8 There are many different kinds of adverbs, and each one has different rules for placement. This is one reason why knowing that some word "is an adverb" is pretty useless …

Jan 23, 2016 · The answer is There is a total... The rest of that sentence is a prepositional phrase. The philosophical question is whether you should use what prescriptivist grammar rules state, …

Thus both "there are more than one species" and "there is more than one species" are equally correct (though have subtly different meanings), but the latter sounds better since it is more …

Jul 7, 2011 · I never understood why "There, there" is supposed to cheer someone up. Does anyone know?