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yanogator
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Aquarius gave us a little riddle there. It �s not true that there �s and there is are different in meaning, but they are different in usage, which is what aquarius is saying.
As we �ve already said, the correct way to say this is "There are a hundred students in the college". You can see that clearly if you use the numeral instead of the word: "There are 100 students in the college." (Think of "one hundred" as if it were a single word, like "twenty", and "is" will make sense). However, in speech, many people would say "There �s a hundred students in the college", but not "There is a hundred students in the college." Formally, There �s is wrong here, but in everyday speech it �s common.
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27 Mar 2010
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magneto
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The correct answer is (c)- "a hundred", because you have the word "exactly" in the sentence, which means you need to use a specific number. It could also be "a thousand", but in answer (a) the article is omitted. If "exactly" wasn �t there, you could also say "thousands of" or "hundreds of".
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27 Mar 2010
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adital
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Sorry for misleading, thinking about it again, Lindsey (and the others too) you were correct. the answer is c. 
Since we �re talking about the students it has to be: there are and not there is.
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27 Mar 2010
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aquarius_gr
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Exactly Bruce! It is very common in spoken English and used inadvertently. So common actually that I �ve even seen it tested in grammar exercises. |
27 Mar 2010
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