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ENGLISH
PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
Autor: | Ricardo - EMB |
E-mail: | emb@sk.com.br |
Data: | 15/DEZ/2011 2:23 PM |
Assunto: | Orações sem sujeito |
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Different grammarians will give different explanations for the role of there in existential sentences (There + to be).
According to Quirk, Greenbaum and Leech (A Grammar of Contemporary English), the there of existential sentences behaves like the subject of the clause. Ex:
There's some people in the waiting room. (informal) There are some people in the waiting room.
The existential there is a device for leaving the subject position vacant of content. It may be regarded as an empty slot filler.
Ricardo - EMB |