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salwamel
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help pleeeeeeeeeeese
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which is correct : there is a dining room, a living room, a kitchen... or there are a dining room, a living room, a kitchen... thank you very much for your apprecited help
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4 Apr 2011
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Mar0919
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Hello, Salwamel! The article "a" indicates SINGULAR, therefore, the correct way to write it would be: There IS a dining room, a living room, a kitchen....
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4 Apr 2011
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aboabed3
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Salam
There is is the answer according to grammar books. We use the is/are depending on the closest noun-which is in this case �a dining room �.
I hope I �m right.
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4 Apr 2011
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ueslteacher
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Definitely there is as it depends on the fist noun in the list: There is a bedroom, a living room and two toilets in the house. There are two bedrooms, a living room and two toilets. Sophia |
4 Apr 2011
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Fragrant.Perfume
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salam :))) actually your sentence is unfinished "..." so it �s not correct !! better say "there are a dining-room, a living-room, a kitchen and a bathroom" this is a good way to teach them "coherence" too, that is to say, when there are many nouns, we use a comma to separate them and add "and" before the last :))) |
4 Apr 2011
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Mar0919
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As long as the article is used ---- a ------ this indicates SINGULAR. You cannot use THERE ARE with a singular noun. As Sophia mentions, if you say THERE ARE two bedrooms, a living room, etc, etc, then it �s Ok, because the first noun immediately after the phrase "there are" is PLURAL. |
4 Apr 2011
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learner34
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"There is" is the right answer since the first noun is singular - as my colleages mentioned .
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5 Apr 2011
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