Is "coming" a gerund or a verb here?There is somebody coming to the house through the garden.
I immediately came with my own example: There are children playing in the yard.
Did I get idea? What grammar topics describe such sentence structure?
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Is "coming" a gerund or a verb here?There is somebody coming to the house through the garden.
Most likely.
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4 structures with auxiliary be
There can also be used in structures where be is a progressive or passive auxiliary. Note the word order.
There was a girl swimming in the lake. (= A girl was swimming...)
(NOT There was swimming a girl ...)
There have been more Americans killed in road accidents than in all the wars since 1900. (= More Americans have been killed...)
(NOT There have been killed more Americans...)
There'll be somebody meeting you at the airport.