ENGLISH - LEVEL A2 - GRAMMAR - MODUL 7 ~ TOP ENGLISH INDONESIA

MODUL 7 : USING 'THERE IS' AND 'THERE ARE'

Tahukah Anda cara menggunakan there is dan there are? Baca penjelasannya untuk membantu Anda.

Lihatlah contoh-contoh ini untuk melihat bagaimana kita menggunakan there is dan there are.

There's a very big park in my city.
There aren't any street markets.
There are no restaurants in the station.
But there's a café and a bank.

Penjelasan Tata Bahasa (Grammar)

Affirmative

Kita menggunakan there is untuk mengatakan bahwa sesuatu itu ada di suatu tempat.

There is a bridge in the park.

Kita menggunakan there is untuk kata benda tunggal (singular nouns) dan there are untuk kata benda jamak (plural nouns).

There is a restaurant in the station.
There are two cafés in the shopping centre.

Kita dapat menggunakan there's ketika kita berbicara. Tapi there are tidak memiliki bentuk pendek.

There is a restaurant in the station. > There's a restaurant in the station.
There are two cafés. > ~~There're two cafés.~~

Ketika kita berbicara secara tidak formal (informal) dan membuat daftar hal-hal, kita sering menggunakan there is atau there's, bukan there are.

There's a café, a supermarket and a bus stop on my street. (Instead of There are a café, a supermarket and a bus stop on my street.)

Negative

Untuk bentuk negatif, kita menggunakan there isn't atau there's not (= there is not) untuk singular nouns dan there aren't (= there are not) untuk plural nouns.

There isn't a pharmacy near the hotel.
There aren't any restaurants near the hotel.

Kita sering menggunakan there isn't a + singular nouns, there isn't any + kata benda yang tidak dapat dihitung (uncountable noun), dan there aren't any + plural noun.

There isn't a café near here.
There isn't any milk.
There aren't any toilets in the park.

Untuk menunjukkan bahwa kata negatif itu penting, kita juga sering menggunakan there is no + uncountable noun dan there are no + plural noun. (Ada kemungkinan untuk menggunakan there is no + singular, tetapi ini tidak umum.)

There's no milk.
There are no toilets in the park.

Pertanyaan (Questions)

Untuk pertanyaan, kita mengatakan is there untuk singular nouns dan uncountable nouns, dan are there untuk plural nouns.

Is there a café near here?
Is there any milk in the fridge?
Are there any toilets in the park?

Untuk menjawabnya kita bilang yes, there is (bukan ~~yes, there's~~) atau no, there isn't, atau yes, there are atau no, there aren't.

Is there a café near here? Yes, there is. / No, there isn't.
Is there any milk in the fridge? Yes, there is. / No, there isn't.
Are there any toilets in the park? Yes, there are. / No, there aren't.

Berikut ini ringkasan bentuk-bentuk tersebut.

	singular	plural
affirmative	there is there's	there are
negative	there is not there isn't there's not	there are not there aren't
negative + a/any	there isn't a ... (countable) there isn't any ... (uncountable)	there aren't any ...
negative + no	there is no ...	there are no ...
question	Is there ...?	Are there ...?

Bentuk Verb Lainnya

Kita bisa menggunakan there is dan there are dalam banyak bentuk verb lainnya.

There was a storm last night. (Past simple)
There were a lot of cars on the roads yesterday. (Past simple)
There will be a lot of people at the shopping centre tomorrow. (Future simple)