English grammar

There is/There are (affirmative/ negative/ interrogative)

Autora: Alexa Estefanía Martínez Vázquez

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Objectives

There is/ There are (interrogative)

There is/ There are (Affirmative)

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Video

There is/ There are (Negative)

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Objectives

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General

Students will use language to express present activities, and to share or request personal information in simple and direct exchanges.

• The student communicates in a foreign language through logical speech, oral or written, consistent with the communicative situation.

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There is

There are

THERE ARE can be use to refer to the existence or presence of someone or something.

THERE IS can be use to refer to the existence or presence of someone or something.

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We use it with SINGULAR.

We use it with PLURAL

We can use it with Countable and Non-countable nouns.

We can use it with Countable nouns

References

THERE IS / there are

(Affirmative)

The choice between the phrases there is and there are at the beginning of a sentence is determined by the noun that follows it.

Use there is when the following noun is singular.

Use there are when the following noun is plural.

Examples:

Examples:

• There are monsters on your closet!
• There are two windows in your room.
• There are books on your desk.

• There is a monster on your closet!

• There is a lamp on your night table.

• There is a book on the desk.

THERE IS / there are

(Negative)

To say that something DOESN'T exist.

The negative is formed by putting not after is or are:

Examples:

There is not a dog in the house. There is not a tree in the garden. There are not five candles in the table. There are not any magazines in the office.

Contractions:

When we want to indicate that a zero quantity of something exists we use there aren't any.

The contraction of there is is there's. -There's a good song on the radio. The contraction of there are is there aren't. -There aren't any trees in my street

THERE IS / there are

(Interrogative)

To form a question we place is / are in front of there

Again we use any with plural questions or those which use uncountable nouns.

• We also use there is / are in short answers.

Examples:

Is there a dog in the beach house? - No, there isn't. Are there any dogs in the park? - Yes, there are.

VIDEO

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1.- _________ a woman.

There are

There is

2.- _________ two pencils on the desk.

There are

There is

3.- _________ any cake in the fridge.

There aren't

There isn't

4.- _________ any cars in the garage.

There aren't

There isn't

5.- _________ any candles for the cake?

Are there

is there

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