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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