1.Tyler, do you like London?

Sure, there are lots of restaurants and shops, and there's a lot of beautiful parks and museums as well.

I really want to live there.

Me too!
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2.
Hey, this is a great apartment.

Thanks. There's a lot of space, and there are some really nice neighbors as well.

Are there any stores near here?

Sure, there is a supermarket near here.

You have a great view!

Right. There's only one problem.

What's that?

It's really expensive!
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3.
Is there any pizza?

No we don't have any, sorry.

Well, are there any apples?

Er, yes, there's some in the kitchen. Help yourself.

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Key Vocabulary

Grammar

1. There is / there are

"There" is a kind of pronoun used to show something you know exists.

Compare these two sentences:
- "A fly is in my soup."
- "There is a fly in my soup!"
The first sentence is factual and impersonal. The fly is the subject, and the soup is the object. In the second sentence the object is "a fly in my soup", so the subject is "There". "There" functions as a kind of dummy subject that represents a more personal perspective, rather than a factual statement.

Especially in spoken English we usually use the contraction "there's", rather than "there is".

Here are the forms of "there" in the Simple Present.

There is usually subject-verb agreement when using there is/there are. For example:
- There are ten students in my class.
- There is ten students in my class.

Sometimes however we can use "there is" with compound subjects, for example:
There's a bank and a post office near my house.

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