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Help with the sentence
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gordana44
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Help with the sentence
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Hello everyone!
Can anyone tell me if this sentence is correct?
In my town there are a library, a museum, a hotel and many banks.
Many thanks. |
11 Sep 2012
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NanG
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Hi
gordana44 !
I would say : In my town there IS a library, a museum, a hotel and THERE ARE many banks. |
11 Sep 2012
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RileyR
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I want to add that the reason you use IS in the first part is because there is only one library, one museum and only one hotel. What u did is taking three sentences that talks about something in singular and combining them together but you still talk about one thing.
When u use "a bank" in a sentence, it always goes with there is a bank. a is only for singular.
Than in the second part you have to add there are because you talk about more than one thing.
I hope what I said makes sense...
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11 Sep 2012
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yanogator
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I �m sorry to throw reality into the picture, but in the US, at least, we don �t follow this textbook rule in speaking. We think of it more as "In my town there are the following: a library, a museum, a hotel and many banks", so what we say is usually "In my town there are a library, a museum, a hotel and many banks". It actually sounds strange to American ears with "is". I don �t know what the practice is in other English-speaking countries.
Bruce |
11 Sep 2012
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jannabanna
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In England we say: In my town there is a library, a museum, a hotel and many banks. It would be very strange to use "are". See: |
12 Sep 2012
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foose1
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Sorry Bruce, I don �t agree with you. I say, "there is a library, a museum, a hotel and also many banks." Is sounds strange to me. But then again, I am from Arizona. John |
12 Sep 2012
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gordana44
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Thank you all to reply to my question. I understand the rule of there is and there are but in this sentence I was not sure what is the right sentence structure. |
12 Sep 2012
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