Can you explain the uses of here and there? We can say "I live here" but not "I like here." We can say "This place is terrible." and "It is terrible here." but not "Here is terrible."
Swan's Practical English Usage, (Oxford, 3rd ed.) says here and there are not normally used as nouns (p. 224), but here can be used as a subject in sentences as common as "Here is where we’ll plant the roses. or "Here is your book."
I live here (here = 'in this place' or similar).
I like
it here (here = in this place).
Here, it is terrible (here is an interjection).
The uses of here and there can be idiomatic. It is what those two adverbs are standing in for that explains the sense of use. Here and there reflect opposite positions, not opposing positions, giving a sense of location where the difference may be quite small ( say inches apart) or far apart (here may be in London and there could be anywhere else in the world). In the sense that they replace a noun, a phrase, an idea they easily describe that noun, phrase or idea. They should not be regarded as nouns in a proper sense.
This place here is terrible. Here gives emphasis to place.
Here is where we'll plant the roses, or, this is where we'll plant the roses - this spot, place, garden, field or similar is the sense of here, the nouns that here 'replaces'.
Here is your book. Here/there is a direction to the object.
