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- “There’s” or “There are”? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Possibly Related: “There are so many” vs “There is so many” There is are one or several apple ~s? “Is there” versus “Are there” “There is are more than one” What's the difference? Should I say “there is a handful of…” or “there are a handful of…”? Is “there're” (similar to “there's”) a correct contraction? Which is correct: “There are not any
- Is therere (similar to theres) a correct contraction?
There're is common in speech, at least in certain dialects, but you'll rarely see it written If I were being pedantic, I'd advise you to use there are in your example, because there is is definitely wrong, so there's could be considered wrong as well But a huge number of English speakers, even those that are well-educated, use there's universally, regardless of the number of the noun in
- Is ‘There is no there there’ a normal and very natural expression?
Though spell-checker keeps demanding me to delete one of three theres there from the text I’m typing in, I don’t think there’s any grammatical problem with this line However, it makes me hiccup for unknown reason Is this just a pun of words played by the writer? Is it 'cool' or a very normal and natural expression?
- grammatical number - There are so many vs. There is so many . . .
There are so many questions on this website There is so many questions on this website The former quot;sounds right, quot; but the contracted form of the latter does as well: There's so many
- Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
There are many versions of this proverb, which suggests there are always several ways to do something The earliest printed citation of this proverbial saying that I can find is in a short story by the American humorist Seba Smith - The Money Diggers, 1840: "There are more ways than one to skin a cat," so are there more ways than one of digging for money Charles Kingsley used one old British
- Theres no point + gerund vs theres no point in + gerund
I've noticed that both are used though "point in" is seemingly far more prevalent Is there any difference or it's down to one's preferences? E g There's no point in talking to you vs
- Euphemism for Theres more than one way to skin a cat
Growing up in the 80s, I ended up hearing using this phrase a lot whenever I wanted to express that there was more than one way to do something: "there's more than one way to skin a cat " I
- Whats the origin of the saying, Theres no accounting for taste?
I hear it all the time in arguments over subjective judgements: There's no accounting for taste Where does this saying come from? Is it a quote or old proverb?
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