Unit 3.2
There is and There are: negative
Verbs
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Form
There is/are has the subject after the verb and, in its negative form, has this structure:
Singular nouns: There is + not + singular noun/uncountable noun + …
Plural nouns: There are + not + plural noun + …
Negative short forms are: there isn’t/aren’t (the same short forms of to be).
Some more common negative expressions are:
- there are no / there are not any;
- there aren’t / there aren’t any.