There vs Thers - What's the difference?
there | thers |
(location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here ).
* 1623 , , The Comedy of Errors , Act 5, Scene 1,
* 1769 , , 2, viii,
* 1667 , '', 1773, James Buchanan (editor), ''The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered into Grammatical Construction ,
(figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
* 1597 '', Act 3, Scene 3, 1836, ''The Works of Shakespeare , Isaac, Tuckey, and Co.,
(location) To or into that place; thither.
* , prologue:
* 1623 , , Act 2, Scene 1,
* 1690 , , paragraph 4:
* 1769 , , 28, vii,
(obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
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*:: Note : Modern editions commonly render this instance of ther'' as ''where .
In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below .
* 1928 January, Captain Ferdinand Tuohy, "Why Don't We Fly?", in Popular Science ,
That place.
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That status; that position.
* 1908', C. H. Bovill (lyrics), Jerome D. Kern (music), '''', song from the musical ''Fluffy Ruffles ,
* 1909', ,
* 1918 , , Part 1, II,
* 1895 , Sabine Baring-Gould, : Nursery Songs, XXII: The Tree in the Wood,
* 1897 , '': The Kentucky Home, in ''Four Great Americans ,
* 1904 , Uriel Waldo Cutler, , Chapter XXXI: How Sir Launcelot Found the Holy Grail,
(in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.
(colloquial)
* {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Various, title=Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He had bene instrumentall in promotinge the three persons above mencioned to the Kings favour, and had himselfe in truth so greate an esteeme of them, that he did very frequently upon conference togither departe from his owne inclinations and opinions, and concurred in thers ; and very few men of so greate parts are upon all occasyons more councellable then he, so that he would seldome be in daunger of runninge into greate errors, if he would communicate and expose all his owne thoughts and inclinations to such a disquicition, nor is he uninclinable in his nature to such an intire communication in all things which he conceaves to be difficulte; but his fatall infirmity is, that he to often thinkes difficulte things very easy, and doth not consider possible consequences, when the proposition administers somewhat that is delighfull to his fancy, and by pursuinge wherof he imagynes he shall reape some glory to himselfe, of which he is immoderately ambitious, so that if the consultation be upon any action to be done, no man more implicitely enters into that debate, or more cheerefully resignes his owne conceptions to a joynt determination, but when it is once affirmatively resolved, besydes that he may possibly reserve some impertinent circumstance as he thinkes, the impartinge wherof would change the nature of the thinge, if his fancy suggests to him any particular which himselfe might performe in that action, upon the imagination that every body would approove it, if it were proposed to them, he chooses rather to do it, then to communicate, that he may have some signall parte to himselfe in the transaction, in which no other person can clayme a share; and by this unhappy temper, he did often involve himselfe in very unprosperous attempts. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1898, author=John Hartley, title=Yorkshire Lyrics, chapter=, edition=
, passage=They've raised some fine buildings 'at's worth lookin at,-- They're a credit to th' city, thers noa daat o' that; But ther's nowt strikes a stranger soa mich as a seet O'th' craad 'at's i' Briggate at Setterdy neet. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=George Bernard Shaw, title=The Irrational Knot, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Well, Miss Susan, thers plenty for you to eat and drink. }}
As pronouns the difference between there and thers
is that there is while thers is .As an adverb there
is (location) in a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here ).As an interjection there
is .As a noun there
is that place.As a contraction thers is
.there
English
Adverb
(-)- And in a dark and dankish vault at home / There left me and my man, both bound together;
- The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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- To veil the heav'n, tho' darkne?s there' might well / Seem twilight ' here .
- He did not stop there , but continued his speech.
- They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there .
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- The law, that threaten’d death, becomes thy friend / And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.
- A knight there was, and that a worthy man /
- And the rarest that e’er came there .
- So that wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced, and present in the understanding.
- There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
The Summoners's Prologue and Tale]'', in ''[[w:The Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales],
- And spende hir good ther it is resonable;
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- These firms do not want the truth to get out and are financing these flights in the hope of dazzling the public. Yet the record of the gas engine is there for all to see.
Usage notes
* The use of there'' instead of they're (meaning ''they are ) is a common error in English writing. * (to or into that place) ** There'' is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling attention to something, especially to something distant; as, There, there'''! See '''there'''! Look ' there ! ** There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. ** There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See thereabout, thereafter, therefrom, etc.Synonyms
* (to or into that place) thither (archaic)Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * *Interjection
(en interjection)- There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
- There! That knot should hold.
Noun
(en noun)- You get it ready; I'll take it from there .
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]
- There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]
- Is there an answer? [=Does an answer exist?]
- No, there isn't. [=No, one doesn't exist.]
- It's very sad but all the same, / There ’s something rather odd about Augustus.
- There was a time when I tried to change my position, which was not in harmony with my conscience; .
- There are intentional and unintentional towns.
- If x is a positive number, then there''' exists ''[='''there is]'' a positive number y less than x.
- There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]
- Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there''' lived a woodsman with his wife.'' [=' There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.]
- There''' arose a great wind out of the east.'' [=' There was now a great wind, arising in the east.]
- All in a wood there grew a fine tree,
- Not far from Hodgensville, in Kentucky, there once lived a man whose name was Thomas Lincoln.
- On a night, as he slept, there came a vision unto him, and a voice said, "Launcelot, arise up, and take thine armour, and enter into the first ship that thou shalt find."
- There''' seems to be some difficulty with the papers.'' [=It seems that ' there is some difficulty with the papers.]
- I expected there''' to be a simpler solution.'' [=I expected that ' there would be a simpler solution.]
- There''' are beginning to be complications.'' [=It's beginning to be the case that ' there are complications.]
- there'''for, '''there'''at, ' there under
- Hi there , young fellow.
Usage notes
* In formal English, the verb agrees with the semantic subject: “there is a tree”, “there are some trees”, “there seems to be a mistake”, “there seem to be some mistakes”, and so on. This is because the "there [form of be]" construction originally used, and could still be said to use, "there" as simply an adverb modifying "to be". However, the syntax is archaic enough that "there" is rarely recognized as an adverb. In colloquial usage, therefore, the verb is often found in the third-person singular form, even when the semantic subject is plural — “there’s some trees”, “there seems to be some mistakes” — but this is often considered incorrect.See also
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