There Is & There Are: Exercise and Test (Beginner)✅
In this lesson, you will be learning the difference between “there is & there are”, which is one of the most basic subjects of English.
By the end of this article, you will have a very good understanding of the grammatical structures of “there is, there are.”
In English,if you want to say that something exists or does not exist somewhere, we usually use ‘there + be‘.
☛The word “there” takes the form there is with singular nouns and there are with plural nouns.
‘There is + singular’
There is a horse.
There is an apple.
There is one car.
☛”A” goes before words that begin with consonants.
a flower
a lion
a pink unicorn
a horse
a big apple
☛”An” goes before words that begin with vowels:
an apple
an egg
an Irish
an orc
an uprising
‘there are + plural’.
There are apples
There are horses.
There are two cars.
| Affirmative | ||
| There | is | an apple on this tree. |
| are | books in his bag. |
| Questions | ||
| Is | there | an apple on this tree? |
| Are | books in his bag? |
| Negative | ||
| There | isn’t | an apple on this tree. |
| aren’t | books in his bag. |
| Contractions | |
| Yes, | there is there are |
| No, | there isn’t there aren’t |
There is There are Exercise Worksheet – (download)
There is & There are Test
#1. There ______ ten pencils in my bag.
#2. There ___ some tall people.
#3. There ______ any water left.
#4. Sorry, Mom. _____ nothing left.
#5. ___ there any deserts in Europe?
#6. There ______ a lot of errors in this book.
#7. ____ there anybody out there?
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