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goelmohit2002
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SC - "There is/are" in general wrong ?

by goelmohit2002 Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:13 pm

Hi All,

In many places I read that "There is/There are" is in general wrong in GMAT....

Can someone please tell why ? Is there any grammatical/logical reason for the same?

Can someone please tell under what circumstances "There is/there are" is correct and when the same is wrong ?

Thanks
Mohit
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Re: SC - "There is/are" in general wrong ?

by RonPurewal Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:31 am

goelmohit2002 Wrote:Hi All,

In many places I read that "There is/There are" is in general wrong in GMAT....

Can someone please tell why ? Is there any grammatical/logical reason for the same?

Can someone please tell under what circumstances "There is/there are" is correct and when the same is wrong ?

Thanks
Mohit


there's no reason why it should generally be wrong.

in many cases, it's less concise than some other formulation. for instance, there are two cell phones on the table
is less concise than
on the table are two cell phones.

still, you won't really see choices that are incorrect only on the basis of concision. so, if there's a choice on which they deride "there is / there are" as not concise enough, there should definitely be some other reason to eliminate that choice as well.