There is / There are

Look at these sentences:
There is a blackbird in the garden.
There’s a bottle of coke in the fridge.
There are sixty people in the waiting room.
There are a lot of wild animals in the forest.
We use the form there is in the singular form and the form there are in the plural form.
Singular |
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Positive | Negative | Question |
There is a dog in this room. | There isn’t a dog in this room. | Is there a dog in this room? |
Plural | ||
Positive | Negative | Question |
There are some dogs. | There aren’t any dogs. | Are there any dogs? |