 | Rudolf Kern - 1976 - 594 pages
...So heisst es zum Beispiel in der neuen grossen Grammatik von Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech und Svartvik: 'Existential sentences are principally those beginning...verb BE the clause expresses the notion of existence' (Quirk et al. 1972 : 956). lch halte die Kennzeichnung der there • Sätze als Existenzsätze in dieser... | |
 | I. P. Attarde - 2008 - 462 pages
...with the the unstressed word there, and are so called because when unstressed there is followed by form of the verb be, the clause expresses the notion of existence: eg There is nothig healtheir than a cold shower. 24. Pseudo-Cleft sentence - Like the cleft sentence... | |
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Existential sentences are principally those beginning with the unstressed word there, and are so called because when unstressed there is followed by a form of the verb BE the clause expresses the notion of existence1. 