Word Type
There can be an interjection, a noun, a pronoun or an adverb.
there used as an interjection:
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"There, there! Everything is going to turn out all right." -
"There! That knot should hold."
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
there used as a noun:
- That place.
- That status; that position.
"You get it ready; I'll take it from there."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
there used as a pronoun:
- in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.}}
"There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]" -
"If x is a positive number, then there exists [=there is] a positive number y less than x." -
"There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. [=It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.]"
A pronoun is a placeholder for a noun. Examples of pronouns are: them, he, they, it. Pronouns make sentences shorter and clearer since they replace nouns. For example, instead of saying 'Emily was happy, so Emily smiled.' you can say 'Emily was happy, so she smiled.' Learn more →
there used as an adverb:
- In or at that place or location.
"Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off, in such a manner, that here would include the person using the word, while there would not." - In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech.
- To or into that place; thither.
"Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling attention to something, especially to something distant; as, There, there! See there! Look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject." - Where, there where, in which place.
- In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below.
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
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- Interjection usage: There, there! Everything is going to turn out all right.
- Interjection usage: There! That knot should hold.
- Noun usage: You get it ready; I'll take it from there.
- Pronoun usage: There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]
- Pronoun usage: There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]
- Pronoun usage: Is there an answer? [=Does an answer exist?]
- Pronoun usage: No, there isn't. [=No, one doesn't exist.]
- Pronoun usage: If x is a positive number, then there exists [=there is] a positive number y less than x.
- Pronoun usage: There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]
- Pronoun usage: Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. [=There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.]
- Pronoun usage: There arose a great wind out of the east. [=There was now a great wind, arising in the east.]
- Pronoun usage: There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. [=It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.]
- Pronoun usage: I expected there to be a simpler solution. [=I expected that there would be a simpler solution.]
- Pronoun usage: There are beginning to be complications. [=It's beginning to be the case that there are complications.]
- Adverb usage: Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off, in such a manner, that here would include the person using the word, while there would not.
- Adverb usage: Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling attention to something, especially to something distant; as, There, there! See there! Look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject.
- Adverb usage: Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See thereabout, thereafter, therefrom, etc.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of there are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of there, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
