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Originally Posted By: Jackie
Also--there're might be considered okay. Informally.
But it's hard to say. And, FWIW, the same construction (or at least constructions that fill the same slot) in other IE languages tend to be singular regardless of the number of the object. German es gibt, not sie geben. The Spanish hay is derived from an expression with the singular ha. The French il-y-a.
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