The Editor’s Manual
Free learning resource on English grammar, punctuation, usage, and style.
Use “sic” to indicate a grammatical or spelling mistake in the original text of a quote. “Sic” is generally italicized in formal texts. Also enclose “sic” in brackets in formal writing.
Use there is or there’s when the noun that follows is singular (“There is a dog”) and there are when the noun is plural (“There are two dogs”). There’s is sometimes also used with a plural noun in speech and informal writing (“There’s a dog and a cat on the rug”).
“There” acts as a functional subject in a sentence to introduce a new topic, speak of quantity and number, or describe a situation (“There is an elephant in the garden”).
Adverbs add to the meaning of other parts of a sentence. They express a relationship of manner (how), time (when), place (where), duration (how long), degree (how much), circumstance, and connection (why, whether).