Is my grammar book correct?
MY book says:There is ten dollars in my pocket. not "are" Ten dollars should be viewed as a whole. Is it correct？Thanks.

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I think the most common way a native English speaker would say that sentence is, "There's 10 dollars in my pocket".  The contraction of "There" & "is" is much more natural than saying "There are...". Perhaps that is why they wrote "There is..." instead of "There are".

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You are right to be suspicious here - I'd say it's wrong. It should be "There are 10 dollars in my pocket". However, "There is a 10-dollar bill in my pocket" (where the bill is the subject instead of the dollars) would be fine.

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