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Ahoj všem. Potřeboval bych prosím poradit s úkolem týkající se vazby “there”. Zadání zní: The sentences (1) Children were playing in the garden and (2) There were children playing in the garden are equivalent because the constituent there is semantically empty. Je to pravda nebo lež?
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Ho Štěpán, this is a challenging question. I'm working on answering it for you. So far I can tell you that a) both sentences have exactly the same meaning. B) in these one sentence ‘there’ is functioning as a pronoun. C) the second sentence is called an expletive sentence and is thought to be poor English in some circles (though not by me!) I suppose you already know this though and want to clarify the term semantically empty. I'll be back shortly to try to answer that. By the way it's also common in English to use both there at the start as a pronoun and again at the end as a place eg. There were a lot of children there.
Ok I'm back. I'd say yes. It can be called a dummy pronoun without explicit
meaning. Let me know if you want links to more info. 
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Ho Štěpán, this is a challenging question. I'm working on answering it for you. So far I can tell you that a) both sentences have exactly the same meaning. B) in these one sentence ‘there’ is functioning as a pronoun. C) the second sentence is called an expletive sentence and is thought to be poor English in some circles (though not by me!) I suppose you already know this though and want to clarify the term semantically empty. I'll be back shortly to try to answer that. By the way it's also common in English to use both there at the start as a pronoun and again at the end as a place eg. There were a lot of children there.
Ok I'm back. I'd say yes. It can be called a dummy pronoun without explicit meaning. Let me know if you want links to more info.
Wow. Thank you so much. I appreciate that Richard!
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