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#1 (permalink) Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:52 am Concord: there's/there are + plural noun

Natives, going from intuition, which form would you say is more common in both the formal and informal register? There's hardly any apples in the fridge. There are hardly any apples in the fridge. Is "there's" in "There's hardly any apples in the fridge." comparable to the German es gibt? The BNC (in the spoken register): there are no + plural noun - 0 per 1 million words there's no + plural noun - 8 per 1 million words there are loads - 8 per 1 million words there's loads - 74 per 1 million words there are things - 36 per 1 million words there's things - 17 per 1 million words What's happening?

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