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In English grammar the structures "there is" and "there are" are used to talk about the existence of things, that is to say, things which exsit.

“There is” is used for singular and uncountable nouns, and “there are” is applied to plural countable nouns.

Examples:

• “There are five people in the office.” (plural countable noun)
• “There is a television in the living room.” (singular countable noun)
• or “There is some milk in the fridge.” (uncountable noun)

Using "some"

• With plural countable nouns we can either give the quantity (“five people”) or use “some” if we don't know the exact quantity.

 

Examples:

• “There are five people in the office.” (We can see five people exactly)
• “There are some people in the office.” (We don't know exactly how many people)

 

• With uncountable nouns we also use “some”.

 

Examples:

• “There's some milk in the fridge,” (I don't know the exact quantity.)
• “There's some money in my wallet.” (I don't know exactly how much money.)

 

Negative form and using "any"

• There are two ways to form the negative.

   

  1. Add not or n't to the end of the verb.

   

  Examples:

  1. "There isn't a freezer in the kitchen." (singular, countable noun)
  2. "There isn't any money in my wallet." (uncountable noun)
  3. "There aren't any students" in the classroom. (plural noun)

   

• For uncountable nouns, use “any” after the negative “isn't”, and for plural countable nouns use “any” after “aren't”.

   

  Remember: do not use "any" with singular countable nouns.

   

  Example:

• "There isn't a single biscuit left in the packet." (Not "There isn't any single biscuit left in the packet.")

2. Use "no" after "there is" or "there are".

    

   Examples:

   1. "There is no freezer in the kitchen." (singular countable noun)
   2. "There are no students in the classroom." (plural noun)
   3. "There's no coffee left." (uncountable noun)

    

• However, it's more common to use "isn't + a" for singular countable nouns, "isnt + any" for countable nouns and "aren't + any" for plural nouns.

   

  Question form

   

  To make a question, change the word order from subject-verb to verb-subject:

   

  There is a + singular noun = Is there a + singular noun?

   

  There is some + uncountable noun = Is there any + uncountable noun?

   

  There are some + plural noun = Are there any + uncountable noun?

   

  Examples:

   

  1. "Is there a toilet on this train?"
  2. "Is there any time to go shopping?"
  3. "Are there any trains to London this morning?"

   

• Short answer form

   

  Yes, there is. / No there isn't.

  Yes there are. / No there aren't. N

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The table below shows the months of the year used in English-speaking countries and many other parts of the world. The list shows the order of the months, starting from January (month 1).

The abbreviations or short forms shown are the most common, but other abbreviations are possible, for example: Ja./Fe./Ma. or J./F./M.

The days column shows the number of days in the month. All months have 30 or 31 days, except for February which has 28 days (29 in a leap year).

	Month	Short form	Days	Season
1	January	Jan.	31	winter
2	February	Feb.	28/29
3	March	Mar.	31	spring
4	April	Apr.	30
5	May	May	31
6	June	Jun.	30	summer
7	July	Jul.	31
8	August	Aug.	31
9	September	Sep.	30	autumn
10	October	Oct.	31
11	November	Nov.	30
12	December	Dec.	31	winter

The chart below shows the days of the week in English together with their normal abbreviations.

 

 

		Day of the week	Abbreviation
days of the week (7 days)	weekdays (5 days)	Monday	Mon.	Mo.
		Tuesday	Tue.	Tu.
		Wednesday	Wed.	We.
		Thursday	Thu.	Th.
		Friday	Fri.	Fr.
	weekend (2 days)	Saturday	Sat.	Sa.
		Sunday	Sun.	Su.

 

British English

In British English the day is usually put before the month. If you wish, you can add the ending of the ordinal number. The preposition of before the month is usually dropped. You can put a comma before the year, but this is not common anymore in British English.

 

Example: 5(th) (of) october(,) 2004

 

American English

In American English the month is usually put before the day. If you wish, you can put the definite article before the day. It is common to write a comma before the year.

 

Example: october (the) 5(th), 2004.

 

Using digits

You can also write the date by using numbers only. The most common forms are:

 

Example: 5/10/04 or 5-10-04

 

Note, however, that 5/10/04 usually means 5 October 2004 in British English and May 10, 2004 in American English. To avoid any possible confusion, you should spell out the month or use the abbreviation. N

Here you have a list of exercises to practise the date: