there

While it shares pronunciation with another high-frequency word (their), there is so distinct from its sound-alike that even a computer program can pinpoint errors.

There can function as four or five parts of speech but it does most of its work as an adverb.

Its easiest job is to be the counterpart of here for things that are more remote in space or time from the speaker.

Its more sophisticated role is to introduce a sentence that tells you whether or not something exists or is available: There’s a supermarket just around the corner. There isn’t any soup left.

As an interjection, the meaning of there depends on context but usually suggests an idea of finality: There! I finally finished my paper. There, there, that’s enough.

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