Grammar help
Here are two sentences :
1) There are a lot of students at school.
2) at school are a lot of students.
Which one is gramatically better? I would use the first one. What do you think?
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Style is never out of fashion
Definitely the first one.
The 'there' has to be there. So the 1st one is correct.
Also correct: at school there are a lot of students.
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Daar is de lente, daar is de zon
bijna, maar ik denk dat ze weldra zal komen.
De fallus impudicus staat al in bloei
En de blaadjes krijgen bomen.
M'n vrouw en m'n kat zijn allebei krols
en de klokken vertrekken naar Rome
Sure the first one!
Actually the "there" could be left out--both of these sentences are grammatically correct. (Another possibility: "At school are a lot of students.")
It's more a question of nuance and feel for the language. In my experience an English speaker wouldn't phrase the sentence in the second way (or in my other example); it sounds cumbersome and awkward, unnatural.
As the others said, the first one.
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From the sublime to the ridiculous is but one step--Napolean Bonaparte
I would use the first one too.