Exercise Your Grammar Muscles 1 : There Is and There Are

When there is not emphasized, we frequently use a or an after the verb :
There's a boy waiting to see you in the office.
There's an English man in the gym.
However, when there is emphasized and refers to a particular place, we can use the/a/an according to the situation:
There is the boy I've been talking about.
There is a paper clip. Didn't I tell you that you could find one in that bookcase?

Put in is or are.

1. There ..... still a few old bicycles in the garage.
2. There ..... a lot of of work to be done.
3. There ..... a lot of things which need to be done before we can take a holiday.
4. There ..... not enough pencils to give to all the examination candidates.
5. There ..... a lot of money in the car boot.
6. There ..... something wrong with our project.
7. ..... there enough math teachers in our school?
8. There ..... only a few hockey sticks in the storeroom.
9. ..... there any computers in our school?
10. .....there any more apples in the fridge?
11. There ..... a lot of spelling mistakes in your essay.
12. There ..... quite a lot of sugar in this coffee!
13. There ..... usually quite a lot of students at the end-of-year dinner and dance party.
14. There ..... a number of cracks in the wall.
15. There ..... quite a bit of dust on my laptop screen.
16. There ..... quite a number of shops still open after midnight.
17. There ..... a number of people who saw what happened.
18. There ..... a lot of men in the boat.
19.  ..... there a lot of money left in the bank?
20. ..... there a lot of coins in your piggy bank?

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