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I think that the correct answer is there is acouple of things

because (couple) singular so if it is 2 couples or more we can say that there are 2 couples of.....whaterver


I don't know if my answer is correct so tha English native speakers should help us here to understand this point

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I would say, "there are a couple of things I need to do" rather than, "there is a couple of things I need to do", but I would be more likely still to say simply "there's a couple of things I need to do".
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Well....

In my opinion there's a couple of things I need to do. It's correct

Because as someone else said couple refers to a unite

Plural will be There're many things I need to do many refers to more than two things and couple is an uncountable noun also.

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