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Introductory There

November 24th, 2009 in ESL, English Grammar, English Learning, Improve English

The structure there + to be is very commonly used to say that something exists. There is normally an adverb of place. But the introductory there does not have any adverbial sense and is merely used to introduce the sentence.

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