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Tip # 159: Be careful about the use of
"here's" and "there's"...

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Tip # 159: Be careful about the use of "here's" and "there's" at the beginning of your sentence. For example:

Incorrect:
Here's three great options for you.

Correct:
Here are three great options for you.

 

Incorrect:
There's ten reasons for buying this product.

Correct:
There are ten reasons for buying this product.

They are incorrect because the true subjects "options" and "reasons" require a plural verb "are." "Here's" and "there's" are contractions of "here is" and "there is."

This inverted word order ( Here or There +Verb + Subject) causes writers to make mistakes in subject-verb agreement.

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Is "comprised of" correct? For instance, often I read "the Dutch West

Indies are comprised of ……."

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss The Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction , by William Knowlton Zinsser  The Gregg Reference Manual, by William A. Sabin 
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, White, E. B. White  How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing, by Robert Gunning, Richard A. Kallan (Contributor) 

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