Lesson 7. Grammar Item #5
There are five Swedish students in Section A.
· Swedish students à スウェーデン人の がくせい
· there is/are ([animate])
à います
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five [UNIT: people]
à ごにん
The phrase pattern of Number + Unit[1] grammatically works as an adverb, i.e., works as a modifier of verb, adjective, or adverb, as well as a noun, as similar to tomorrow, yesterday, as in He is five-meter tall, He can throw balls eighty meters. The phrase pattern of Number + Unit specifies the number of either Subject or Object of the verb that the phrase modifies.
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１）スウェーデン人のがくせいが ごにん セクションＡに います。
a) There are three children in my family.