There is, there are and pronouns

Claudia Patricia Vargas Barrios

September 2018

University Corporation Minuto de Dios

Bogotá
Business Administration
English 1
 There is – There are

They are used to indicate that an object or a person is in a specified

place. The peculiarity of these structures is that there is not the real
subject of the verb to be, although it precedes it. The real subject of
the verb is in the position immediately after

There is a book on the table.

There are two books on the table
 THERE
THERE IS
ARE

SINGULAR PLURAL

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 • Article a o an

• affirmative of the singular

there is - contracted
there’s, /dzées/.

• negative of the singular

There is there is not, there
isn’t, /dzérisant/ o there’s
not, /dzéesnot/.

• interrogative form, we
reverse the order of
there y is: Is
there…?, /ísdzee/.
Article a o an

affirmative of the singular

there is - contracted there’s.

negative of the singular there is not,

there isn’t, /dzérisant/ o there’s ot.

interrogative form, we reverse the

order of there y is: Is there…?
 there is in affirmative

There’s an ice cube in my glass There’s a woman next to you.

in negative - there isn’t, /dzéríissant/, o there’s not.

There isn’t a stone in my shoe. There isn’t a book on the table.

in question Is there…?
Is there a child in your car? Is there an apple in your fridge?

Do not use there's with plural nouns. We say There are a lot of people here.
There is =
is there? There Are=
Are There?
Pronouns (Personal, Possessive, Relative and Reflexive Pronoun

Pronouns are words like I, me (personal pronouns)

or my, mine (possessive pronouns).

Possessive Adjectives and

Personal Pronouns
Pronouns Reflexive
possessive possessive Pronouns
subject form object form
adjective pronoun
I me my mine myself
you you your yours yourself
he him his his himself
she her her hers herself
it it its its itself
we us our ours ourselves
you you your yours yourselves
they them their theirs themselves
 Referencia

Pronouns (Personal, Possessive, Relative and Reflexive

Pronouns) Recuperado de:
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/pronouns

There is, There are. Recuperado de: Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ90Jgk4xDw