Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
what is there in this sent? form and function?
There was a nail in my shoe.
Top answer
"There" is a dummy pronoun that functions as the subject of the sentence. It's often called 'existential there'. The basic non-existential version would be "A nail was in my shoe".
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"There" is a dummy pronoun that functions as the subject of the sentence. It's often called 'existential there'. The basic non-existential version would be "A nail was in my shoe".
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