Abstract
E NGLISH HANDBOOKS generally recommend that after the expletive there the verb is singular or plural according to the number of the subject that follows. Thus Smart; Greever and Jones; Foerster and Steadman; Davidson; Thomas, Manchester, and Scott; Kierzek; Wykoff and Shaw; and this list might be considerably enlarged. Of the descriptive grammarians who have treated this matter Jespersen states that there is before a plural subject is colloquial in modem English. Fries finds this construction frequently used in standard American English.' Robert C. Pooley comments on the construction:
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