Grammar: existential phrases
"Apples are there" vs "There are apples"
What
Many languages treat phrases that indicate that something exists differently from regular phrases of the pattern X does Y.
We call these phrases existential phrases because just like existential questions, they concern themselves with existence.
Here is how English makes that distinction…🥁 through word order 🎉
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