There is/ there are. There was/ there were

School 111ENGLISH5 ClassThere is / There are There was / There were Hladskykh M.S.

- we use “there is” or “there are” to talk about things we can see and things that exist; - with “there is” or “there are” we start the sentence when we want to describe the position of the things . There is / There are

There is - singular There is a chair in the kitchen.

There are - plural There are 3 chairs in the kitchen.

There was / There were

(+) There was a cat in the house. (-) There wasn’t a cat in the tree. (was not)

(+) There were children in the park. (-) There weren’t cars in the park. (were not)

Questions (?) Was there a cat in the tree? Were there cars in the park?