包邮应用型大学英语视听说教程:5:学生用书

Here are the sentences expressing existence and inexistence. Pay attention to theunderlined parts and try to learn them by heart.In English, we normally use the pattern "THERE BE" to express the existence ofsomething. For example, if a man says "There is a tiger in the woods", it means he knows a tigerlives in the woods, or "while there is life there is hope", which means you still hold a chance aslong as you are alive, and so on. To express inexistence, you can simply add a "no" or "not" toform a negative pattern. ……