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"here are my courses" is definitely more grammatically correct for written English but "here is my courses" sounds like something you'd say informally in conver
by nlarew 5y ago
"here are my courses" is definitely more grammatically correct for written English but "here is my courses" sounds like something you'd say informally in conversation when you're not overthinking grammar. Maybe the goal is to sound more personable/folksy?
- hunter2_ 5y agoI'm guilty of the occasional are->'s contraction when speaking quickly, but I'd never just substitute are->is because that doesn't save a syllable.
- benmanns 5y ago's short for "is the list of"
- gtirloni 5y agoI'd love to read more about that. Is that a new idiom?
- emsixteen 5y agothere's a lot there are a lot
- hunter2_ 5y agoThere's no way "there's a lot" is a contraction of "there is a list of a lot" which is what you're implying based on the way this particular thread has evolved. Also, your example is ambiguous because "lot" is a singular noun (you wouldn't use "are" if the object is a parking lot, for example) but if you're truncating a longer phrase like "a lot of widgets" then "a lot" is modifying a plural noun (you'd definitely use "are" for that, or the informal apostrophe+s we're discussing).
- emsixteen 5y agoPlease tell me what else it's a contraction of. :)