How to use 'There is...' and 'It is...' and dummy subjects
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2018
- In some languages you can translate 'it is' and 'there is' with just one phrase. But in English we use them differently and explain how in this video lesson. We demonstrate how we use 'it is' and 'there is' as dummy subjects in lots of common English expressions and we also share lots of waiter waiter jokes.
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Vicki and Jay, "The waiter is terrible" but you are fantastic (teachers and actors)!
Ha! Thanks Rafael. Glad you liked it.
"Waiter, waiter, there's a fly in my soup."
- "Don't worry, madam. The spider on the bread roll will get it for you!"
Ha! We'll have to put that one in another video, Craig.
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The first joke is an old musician joke. Never gets old.
Ah yes Tommy. In fact this video's stacked with old jokes. Oldies but goodies I think. :-)
I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson. I particularly love the dramatisation segments! What a great way for students to really embed their learning.
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Whoops! I meant examples. :-)
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It´s so good to see and hear you every week! Thanks a lot!
By the way: The joke with the two flies drinking the wine was great.
It made me laugh heartily!
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thanks for the video, it's very easy to understand because of this video is more fun and simple than the others
So glad it was easy to understand Ivan. :-)
Respected teacher, being undisputedly the greatest grammarian of this time, you are earnestly entreated with folded hands to let me know a bit as to whether the following Cleft sentences are Noun Clause, Adjective clause or Adverbial Clause -(A)It was yesterday that we met him (B) It was yesterday when we met him (C) It was last Saturday that we met him (D) It was last Saturday when we met him.
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As what Tubbo sang: ♫There's a spider on my ceiling, and I'm naming him Dave. Hey, Dave! You better behave!♫
It was brillant, really useful. Thank's a lot! Ah, and Jason had a great performance!! :)
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You guys are hilarious 😂 love it!
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I have been learning English for 1.5 years. And today I found the video and I like it so much. And of course, I will continue to watch other videos on the channel. Thank you very much.
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Thank you for your help teachers, it was a great lesson, very useful. YOUR POINT'S WELL-TAKEN..!
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Thank you! I really enjoyed this lesson!
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Thanks a lot about your great lesson
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i'm learning Grammar in the book called: "Grammar in use" but i can't understand clearly and i search a video to watch then i see you video. it helps me alot :v thanks
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My dear teachers Vicky and Jay, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your invaluable lessons. It really helped me in communicating with my foreign colleagues. I took Vicky’s unhurried manner of speaking as a model and added seriousness from Jay and a little humor from both of you. I felt calm and confident. Thank you very much. With love from Ukraine. :)
Hi Kateryna! This is Vicki and I'm sorry we've been slow in responding. Oh wow, we're so touched by your comment. Thank you so much for writing! I've had many wonderful students over the years and if I could have given them all a gift, I would have probably have chosen confidence as my top wish. We're so glad you've found the videos helpful and thank you so much for writing.
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It's so useful to watch your video lessons. There are a lot of funny and improving information.
We're delighted to have you with us Elena and so glad they're useful.
Wow, it is a very nice video! It helped a lot. I was confused between 'there' and 'it' while I was studying grammar in use. And I found this video. Thank you very much! I'll subscribe. :)
Hello Soobin and welcome to our channel. We're so glad you found the video useful. :-)
Brilliant. Thank you.
So glad you liked it. Thanks Paul.
Thank you for this wonderful lesson
So glad you liked it Fifi. Thanks for writing and telling us.
It's pleasure to see this episode
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Great video again, from both of you! :-) Thank you!
Hello Dreamy. Great to see you here again.
Thanks for the video! I loved it :)
Glad you enjoyed it, Maria! Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.
That's lots of useful tips. How's the weather there Vicki and Jay? Here in São Paulo, Brazil it's 10 degrees, it's funny but we're a tropical country, lots of people get a cold here in the winter season.
But I'll be honest, I love winter season.
Hello E-JO. It sounds like you're having a very chilly winter. We had a long winter here but now summer is in full swing. I love it. I can wear flip flops all the time and leave my coat at home when I go out and we can eat on the deck most nights.
There’s a book on the table.
There are two cats in my garden.
It’s a beautiful day.
It’s hot today.
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Thank you! I learned a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for your efforts .
It's our pleasure Aimanno. Thanks for writing.
I really love your videos!
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Thank you for the wonderful video. It's very helpful!
We're so glad you found this video helpful, Maria. Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.
I am Roman from Russia. You explained the use of "there is ..." very well, everything is clear. I like your channel and video. Regards! :-)
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There's a fly in my soup. It's just added protein.
Ha! :-)
Thank you!!! a beutifull explained!
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Interesting video, it is worthly to watch it. Have a good week, I am eager for the next weekly video.
Glad you liked it Christhian. See you next week!
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It’s great watching your lessons😍
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Hi Vicki Hi Jay as always a great class thanks a lot I learn a lot from your videos
I hope you and Jay have a nice weekend
Thanks Aparecido. The weather's lovely here so I think this weekend will be great. Hope you have a good one too.
lovely Grands love you a lot .
thanks for the lessons
You're very welcome! Glad you like them.
It's so funny and interesting to watch them, regards from Colombia!
Hi Juan Carlos. We're so glad you enjoyed this video. Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.
This is so wholesome.
Thanks for the kind words tg72211. And thank you for watching.
Thank you for this lesson, your videos always make me smile😁
That's great to hear. Thanks Hwang.
Wow, the video is really interesting, the explanation is very good, and I understood, thank you so much for this video, good job teachers:)
Greetings from México 🇲🇽
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Hi ma'am the way you are explaining is highly nice and greate thsnks alot❤❤❤❤❤❤
Loved it!!
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SO Thank you , it,s very useful
So glad it was useful. Thanks for telling us Taher. ;-)
Thanks for this lovely and useful lesson.:) And...may I make a wish? I wonder if you can make the videos about imitation? Because I think through the imitation practice is the best way to help me speak more natural. Again, thanks for the teaching. I really appreciate it.:D
It's so interesting that you say this Jasmine because I've been wondering whether we can do just this. We have lots of short dialogues that illustrate lots pronunciation features and useful structures that might work for this. Let me think about it and thank you very much for this idea.
love it!
Thank you! :-)
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I love it!
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Thanks a lot - again a great video for us to improve in English
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Thanks a lot for this video.It was very useful for me :)
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Thank you....
Thanks again to both of you for another interesting and funny video. There are a lot of flies in it. I feel the same way as you, Vicki, I don’t like them, especially in my food or drink, but somehow Jay manages to make them almost likable. Is this a new ability of his?... I would like to be a fly on the wall to witness your recording sessions! 😉
Ha! AIf you ever visit Philadelphia Scoobynadou, tell us so we can incorporate you in a script.
Thanks for the kind offer. I’ll keep that in mind.
awesome!!!!
Glad you think so!
haha such a great video I loved it )))))
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It's great day on Saturday nice meeting your again.
Hello Nick. Good to see you here again too.
I begin every session with one of your videos. My students like you so much
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Thanks a lot
You're welcome Mutaz.
I notice native speakers like to use “there’s”, when speaking, even when the subject complement is plural.
Oh well spotted, AL. Linguists have found that this is an area where the language is changing.
Very nice i learned it
Great job! Well done Darius. :-)
It was very useful video.thanks you🥰
Glad it was helpful!
There are three actors in the video & it's great to learn English from them😊 Hopefully, the way I use those words is correct💪Thanks for making this useful video👏
Oh great example, Sid Siu. Yes, your sentence was correct. Thanks for writing.
English through vaudeville! I love it!
Ha! Glad you liked it Steve. :-)
Great video and lesson! If I can use 'crisp' here to describe the lesson, then it's crisp with a flavour of humour :) Thank you Vicki and Jay for your wonderful effort!
I like the adjective crisp, Ahmed. It's how I want my apples and (potato) crisps to be, so I'm delighted you think this lesson is crisp.
It also means clear, direct, and effective, right? I hope I didn't choose the wrong adjective :)
We might say an audio recording is crisp and then we'd mean the sound is clear and pleasantly sharp. And a photo might be crisp meaning it's clear and sharp too. Using it to describe a video and its contents is an unusual use, but I like it. :-)
Thank you SEV for the clarification! I'll never misuse it again in the future :)
I think it's really good to experiment with words as you did there. How can we ever know their contexts of use without playing around with them?
Thank you
You're welcome Larn ya. Thank you for writing. :-)
This is a wonderful lesson, I will never frustrate if i find flies in my wine, because they are only 2 and they don't drink a lot of wine!
Ha! We hope that your wine is always fly-free Lyudmila, but if you swallow one by accident, you can always wash it down with more wine.
Simple English Videos ha-ha, yes!
I like your video very much. it's really helpful.
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That waiter...great video!
Thanks Miriam. So glad you liked it. And yes, that waiter...
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Wonderful
1:19 i think Jay said (( people who can’t)) but you understood the opposite Vicky 😂
🇺🇸VS🇬🇧 difference of pronunciation in British and American about can and can’t
So Samuel, so many people who watched the can and can't video had issues with our pronunciation differences that we made a whole other video about that. You can see it here: ruclips.net/video/kkSBXBSOyoc/видео.html. Thanks for writing to us and thanks for watching our video.
Yes thank you and Vicky I am on holiday with my dad in England 🏴 actually my dad is English,and once he said tomato ( tomaato) 🍅 and I said the phrase that Jay often say (( Do you mean a tomato ?( tomayto)
And my grandparents are English speakers too and they say that my English is better than theirs too much they exaggerate
They think my English is fluent but this is thanks to both of you 😁😁😇
Super!
Thanks Maria!
:) good lesson
We're so glad you liked it Ladomo. Thanks for letting us know and thank you for watching.
Hi Vicki and Jay, my name is Samatha. There's a like in "Simple English Videos" from me. How is my example? Thank you both of you 😃.
Your example is perfect, Sridevi. Oh, and thanks for the like :-)
It's great
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Love the Video. Thanks Vicky and Jay for this Video you and Jay did a great job as always...You know Vicky this week was not good for me at all... England played very well but not make his place in the final. I'm very sad
Ah, wasn't it a shame, Ashish. We're sad here too. Still Croatia played splendidly in the second half and deserved their win. So who will you support for the final?
Simple English Videos Croatia has played very well in this world cup so far...I would like to Croatia become world champion this time
It is a pity that this lesson came to an end.
Oh lovely example Dalil!
You are hilarious as always
So glad it gave you a chuckle Anh. :-)
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Thanks
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Do a video about what is the difference between anything and something i am spanish speaker and i am learning english
Oh, it's so interesting that you have requested this Ivan. When we made a video about some and any I found myself writing a list of things I wanted to say about anything and something. I'm sure we'll go back to it and do this - maybe not this year, but probably next.
Very nice auntie
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thank u I m from argentina :d very funny.
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what a fun and useful video to watch! i have a question though,
can we say "there" is the subject of a sentence?
for example,
there is a fly in my soup.
there- subject
is - verb
a fly - object
is this right?
Here after you recommended me this video.
We're so glad you had an opportunity to watch our video. Thanks for letting us know.
Helloooo
I wonder if you can make a video including some famous songs and lyrics used in class to choose a student like eeny meeny miny moe
Oh we'd love to Malak but we are strictly legal at Simple English Videos so we only use music that we can license the rights for. I don't know if I can get eeny meeny miny mo. Are there any other songs you're particularly interested in because I will investigate. You will find a few of our songs in amongst some stories here: www.simpleenglishvideos.com/videos/songs-stories1/