Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Although the company's executives have admitted that there had been ac

There isn't one. When we say "There had been x" or "There are Y," this is just a way of saying that X or Y exists. "There" doesn't refer to a place.

(And come to think of it, the same thing is true in my first sentence. When I say "There isn't one," I mean "an antecedent for 'there' doesn't exist in this sentence.")

Statistics : Posted by DmitryFarber • on 20 Apr 2020, 22:59 • Replies 31 • Views 26593

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