there is – there are

1. Use of there is, there are in sentences and questions

	Singular	Plural
Affirmative sentences	There is a cat in the room.	There are two cats in the room.
Negative sentences	There is not a cat in the room	There are not two cats in the room.
	There is no cat in the room.	There are no cats in the room.
Questions	Is there a cat in the room?	Are there two cats in the room?

2. Contracted forms of there is, there are

• Contactions are only possibe from there is – there's
• The form there're is not used.
• Do not form contracted forms in questions with is there/are there.

	Singular	Plural
Affirmative sentences	There's a cat in the room.	There are two cats in the room.
Negative sentences	There's not a cat in the room.	There are not two cats in the room.
	There isn't a cat in the room.
	There's no cat in the room.	There are no cats in the room.
Questions	Is there a cat in the room?	Are there two cats in the room?

► In informal English you may hear the contracted form there's used with plural nouns. This is grammatically not correct.

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