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Regarding your examples. "There is [...]" Would imply someone indicating
Tower Bridge in London, whilst showing a photograph, or with more emphatic
intonation, indicating surprise or a adamant tone etc etc. It sounds quite
informal.
"Boasts" is a very formal affected choice of word that would usually only be
used when a written style of language was appropriate. Which inyour case, a
demonsrative tone may be wholly appropriate?
Hope this helped!
:-)
"Pavel Ferenc" <ferencpavel@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Is the following sentence gram. correct? "There is Tower Bridge in
> London." or should I use something like: "London has/boasts Tower
> Bridge." ("Tower Bridge is in London" is gram. correct, but it doesn't
> express the idea of giving some info about London and its places of
> interest, such as Tower Bridge). Thanks for any help
>
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