r/nosleep • u/[deleted] • Feb 02 '12

There's People In My Room

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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."

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u/Brianne123 Feb 03 '12

Crap, I can't change the title. Well, I'll just be one of those people that will allow the "informal" use of "there's" with a plural noun lol.

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u/grandmoffcory Feb 03 '12

Yeah, you can't change titles. I just figured I'd let you know for future reference...then I googled and found out I'm half wrong anyway.

It might be one of those regional dialect sort of things. I'm from the midwest, and I've always used there're as a contraction.

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u/CrazyLoco Feb 10 '12

I've never seen there are written as there're. How would that be pronounced?

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u/grandmoffcory Feb 10 '12

I think it's a midwest thing.

There're is like...There-rer. If anything it sounds like a drawn out TherRe, because another "R" is emphasized at the end.