Touchstone 2nd Edition • Language summary • Level 1 Other words (v)
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Grammar There's and There are You can use There's (= There is) and There are to say what is in a place. Use There's / There is + a singular noun (= 1 thing): There's a There's a park in my neighborhood. Use There are + a plural noun (= 2 or more things): There are three are three restaurants.
Quantifiers A / an both mean one. Use a / an with singular nouns:
There's a park. (The first letter of park is is not a, e, i, o, or u.) There's an outdoor café. (The first letter of outdoor café is o.) There's one park and there's one outdoor café.
Quantifiers give information about numbers: •
a lot of means means many
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a couple of means means two or three th ree – a small number
Touchstone 2nd Edition • Language summary • Level 1 Use a lot of , a couple of and some with plural nouns: There are a lot of restaurant restaurants. There are some outdoor some outdoor cafés. There are a couple of movie movie theater s.
Use no with singular or plural nouns: There's no mall. There are no clubs.
Adjectives before nouns You can use adjectives to describe your neighborhood. Adjectives usually come before nouns: There's a small park in my neighborhood. There are some expensive stores.
