On 30 Jan 2011 at 1:42, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> The minute you say (as you did) "... and there's the regional variations
> ..." you leave standard English behind and enter some world inhabited by the
> bewildered. It's "there ARE the regional variations". The verb should agree
> with its predicate. So both should either be singular - there is ("there's)
> the regional variation - or plural - there are (there're) the regional
> variations.
A very good point! Blame my Irish-speaking ancestors who adopted English words
but
didn't always embrace the foreigners' grammar!
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