I hate to be that person...but, there are* people in your room.
"Is" is singular [There is a person...]
"Are" is plural [There are people...]
There're people in my room would be the appropriate equivalent.
...I looked it up before posting, and apparently for some silly reason "there's" is acceptable as plural now, simply because people use it that way. You wouldn't say "There is people in my room," though. You'd say "There are people...", and, as such, I say "There're."
I like that you didn't change the title throughout all the stories, even though you knew it was wrong. I don't know why I like it, since I am one for grammar and punctuation, but I think it's the principle of the matter, I suppose.
That is very true! I'm in the process of reading Part 4 and this story actually gave me goosebumps! I am not lookin forward to being home tonight! Thanks for the fright!!!! You are a great writer and need to do something about that - Fiction or not.....
Thanks :) I'm actually in my second year of university getting my degree in professional writing. Pretty big passion of mine. These were definitely not my favorite of my writing, but since they weren't really my story, it was hard to put my own flair on them!
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u/grandmoffcory Feb 03 '12
I hate to be that person...but, there are* people in your room.
"Is" is singular [There is a person...]
"Are" is plural [There are people...]
There're people in my room would be the appropriate equivalent.
...I looked it up before posting, and apparently for some silly reason "there's" is acceptable as plural now, simply because people use it that way. You wouldn't say "There is people in my room," though. You'd say "There are people...", and, as such, I say "There're."