Explicaciones gramaticales: There is/There are

There is / There are

• El uso del "there is" o "there are" depende del sustantivo que les sigue inmediatamente después. Se usa there is si el sustantivo es singular, there are si el sustantivo es plural.

There is an apple on the table.

There are some apples on the table.

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Contractions are possible, but they are mostly used informally in speech.

There’s a fly in my soup.

Other forms of “be” can also be used with there is/there are.

There will be a party at Bill’s house on Saturday.

There were four witnesses at the crime scene.

Since the expression there is/are usually has no equivalent in other languages, students sometimes use have instead.

Have a lot of food on the table. It has a lot of food on the table. There have a lot of food on the table. There is a lot of food on the table.

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