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I am just starting to learn English, and I thought "ARE" was only used in the verb "TO BE". But I came across the following sentence "There ARE three schools in the town" and I wondered why the "ARE" is in this sentence? Could someone tell me a little bit about the uno of "ARE"? Thank you!!!
2022年7月4日 00:28
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"Are" always is a form of "be." Here's what you might be misunderstanding: every sentence in English needs a subject. We can't omit the subject like in the Romance languages: Há uma escola. Há duas escolas. Tem uma escola. Tem duas escolas. So sometimes "there" is just holding the place of the subject with a form of "be" serving as the verb. We use this structure when we want to say what exists or existed. There is one school. There are two schools. There was a school. There were two schools.
2022年7月4日
There are and there is, are the equivalent of tem or ha in Portuguese. There are horses. There is a house. In English there's a difference between plural and singular.
2022年7月4日
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