ClearTips: Stunning sentences
There
Opening with There is or There are
is one of the most natural ways of starting a sentence in speech and thus
in print. So natural that it tires from overuse. So, much like the opening
It, the opening There is something generally to avoid. Reserve
it for the special needs of conversational punch and variety.
There is little artistic relevance in classifying
rap music, a definite and unique rap form, as poetry.
Starting with
There gives this sentence an easy, natural flow. The alternative—Classifying
rap music, a definite and unique rap form, as poetry has little
artistic relevance—is bumpier.
There were
many stories of courage that night.
There may have been another factor: Fuchs was
complaining.
There has been no post-revolutionary toppling
of statues and icons.
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