Grammar There is / There are - Simple Present Negative   Now, let´s see how to do the negative forms in simple present of "there is" and "there are".     Regular Contraction Singular There is not There isn´t Plural There are not There aren´t   Examples:   Singular There is not any car parked outside the house There is not any clock on the wall There isn´t any pen you could borrow   Plural There are not any computers you could use There are not sits available for us to sit down There aren´t any good songs playing on the radio   Now, as usual, let´s practice. Read, listen and repeat.   Singular 01 There is not paper in the printer and we have to print out something very urgent 02 I just realized that there is not color cartridge in the printer, we need to buy 03 There is not air conditioning in the office. We have to install for the warm summer days 04 And for the cold winter days, we have to do something because there isn´t any heating system 05 It´s really urgent, there isn´t much time to choose, we can´t be picky. We have to hurry 06 We also have to buy some stuffs. For example, there is not stapler and there is not glue 07 There isn´t free wireless internet connection available. We have to contract internet service 08 Sally told me that there isn´t any problem if we contract the internet service next week 09 Okay, I agree with her. There isn´t money to do everything now, we have to do what is necessary 10 Is there anything else missing? Oh, I remember, there isn´t water, we have to buy some     Plural 01 There aren´t chairs for our customers to sit down at the reception area. Should we buy some? 02 Also, there are not magazines for them to read. Maybe we should get some magazines to leave there 03 There aren´t any customers visiting us this week, we can arrange these stuffs next week 04 What are you doing tomorrow? Could you come with me? There are not any appointments scheduled 05 It´s true, there aren´t any important things to do, maybe we could go together to see things 06 That´s gonna be great. There are not enough desks for the employees, should we buy some? 07 Also, there are not computers for everyone. Will they all need computers right away? 08 There are not cars to visit the customers, do you remember? What can we do to resolve this? 09 That´s not a big issue since there aren´t employees to visit the customers. We´re just starting 10 Great! There are not employees to visit the customers so we don´t need cars. Let´s have some coffee   Practice Write 5 sentences with "There is not" and 5 sentences with "There are not" and use a preposition of place or time (in, on, at)   Singular 01 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 02 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 03 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 04 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 05 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________     Plural 01 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 02 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 03 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 04 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 05 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________     Globalized English School English in English   2009 - 2010 Globalized English School  - All rights reserved