Exercise – 40A

1. Translate: There are people walking on the street.

2. Translate: There are nice students.

3. Translate: They are Dutch language students.

4. Translate: There are students coming from all over the world.

5. Translate: There are a lot of foreigners living in the Netherlands.

6. The word ‘er’ can be used as an indefinite subject.

7. The indefinite subject ‘er’ refers to another part of the sentence: the real subject.

8. The indefinite subject ‘er’ is always combined with the 3rd person singular verb conjugation.

9. The indefinite subject ‘er’ can be only combined with the verbs ‘zijn’, ‘worden’ and ‘hebben’.

10. The real subject, that the indefinite subject is referring to, cannot have a definite article.

11. The indefinite subject ‘er’ takes the place of the subject.

12. The indefinite subject ‘er’ cannot be together in one sentence with the word ‘daar’, because it replaces ‘daar’.