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Beginning a sentence with "There"

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Guest  +  85676 Fri, 01 Apr 05 01:43 PM
My TOIEC book says that it is wrong to start a sentence with "There".

Is this true? Thank you.
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maverick88, 4 yr 240 days ago
What do you mean? It's wrong to say 'there's a book on my table'? I don't think so...
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nona the brit  +  85728 Fri, 01 Apr 05 03:37 PM
You can certainly start a sentence with 'there'.

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Anonymous, 1 yr 106 days ago
Depends on how concise you want to be. Wordiness is a common characteristic of "amateur" writing.

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/gram_nominalization.html

Less concise: There is a Pizza Hut in Jefferson City that attracts all the teenagers in town on Saturday nights.

More concise: The local Pizza Hut attracts all the town's teenagers on Saturday nights.

CalifJim  +  554155 Wed, 13 Aug 08 02:16 AM
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“My TOIEC book says that it is wrong to start a sentence with "There".

Is this true?”
No.

CJ 
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Mister Micawber  +  578252 Mon, 20 Oct 08 01:29 PM
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That is ridiculous, Anon.  There (the adverb-- There's a cat over there ) and there (the existential pronoun--There's a cat over there ) are two different critters.
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