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Originally Posted by Casiopea There's a pair of socks in the drawer.
There's a unit in the drawer.
There's a couple of pairs of socks in the drawer.
There are several units.
They're a pair of thieves.
They're a couple of thieves.
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The first pair: both singular. The second pair: both plural? ("There's" is increasingly being used to mean "They are".) The third pair: both singular.
What's the rule? Is there a rule?
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