Timeline for What are the combinations of "there-is" or "there-are" called in English grammar terms?
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| May 14, 2018 at 16:52 | comment | added | Lambie | I believe strongly that some answers do not merit a dictionary definition. Others do. This particular one does merit more explanation unlike regular idioms that are just in an English speaker's head. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 16:47 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I did once, remember the Swiss watch, you didn't want to even add a link or cite a dictionary definition. I promise I won't edit your answers again. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 16:43 | comment | added | Lambie | @Mari-LouA I will not roll it back, now it's there. I know it is from my link. Perhaps next time you can ask me to add additional stuffing to my answer. :) | |
| May 14, 2018 at 16:25 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | You can rollback the edit if you feel I overstepped the line. Nonetheless, the excerpt was taken from your 2nd link. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 13:58 | comment | added | Lambie | @Mari-LouA Citations are fine, long or short. But you took a liberty I myself would not take. I might ask someone to put one in, but not go to the publication and choose one on their behalf. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 7:05 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I think you focus on the OP's request and forget that answers should also help other users and (casual and non) visitors alike. The two links are excellent but they were easy to miss if someone didn't understand that existential sentence (and/or clause) is the answer. On Stack Exchange, I find that "more" is better unless the answer gets ridiculously long-winded and verbose. And I see no harm in citing a short excerpt from a link | |
| May 13, 2018 at 20:50 | comment | added | Lambie | I didn't go into it in detail as the question was: what are these called. It was not examples of those sentences, just what they are called. | |
| May 13, 2018 at 20:38 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2018 at 19:24 | history | edited | Lambie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2018 at 18:24 | history | answered | Lambie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |