3.

2 there is/there are

affirmative
When do we use there is/there are
affirmative?
We use there is/there are to say that someone or something exists
or is present.

There’s a fridge in the kitchen.

There are two beds in the bedroom.

There is a poster on the wall.

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 How many things are in the garage? Read and count.

There are a lot of things in my garage. There’s a

car, and there are two bikes. One of the bikes is
red and one is green. There are three boxes of old
books, and there is one bag of old clothes. Next to
the bag, there’s a chair. And what’s that? Oh no!
There’s a rat under the chair!

There are nine things: one car, two bikes, three boxes,
one bag, one chair, one rat.

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How do we make sentences with
there is/there are affirmative?

there is/there are The short form of there is

is there’s.
Singular There is orange juice in the fridge.
nouns
There ’s a book under the bed.
Plural There are two chairs in the living room.
nouns
There are some DVDs next to the TV. There’s no short
form for there are.

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 Practice Time
Match 1–6 with a–f and say where these things are.
Write sentences with There is/There are.
1 a bath a in the house
2 four bedrooms b in the fridge
3 trees c in the garage
4 a car d in the wall
5 milk e in the bathroom
6 a window f in the garden

1 There’s a bath in the bathroom.

2 There are four bedrooms in the house.

3 There are trees in the garden.

4 There’s a car in the garage.

5 There’s milk in the fridge.

6 There’s a window in the wall.

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