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There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling attention to something, especially to something distant; such as in the phrases There, there!, See there! and Look there!
You use there to indicate a place that you are pointing to or looking at, in order to draw someone's attention to it. There it is, on the corner over there. There she is on the left up there. The toilets are over there, dear. You'll find the details there.
There is used as an adverb of place, to indicate the location of something. There can also be used in several other ways. There is the opposite of 'here'. It means in that place, not here. The places are here. The glasses are there. You were at the party last night. Was Zoe there?. You can park there, beside my car.
Note: Do not confuse there, which has meanings that mostly relate to a literal or abstract location, with the words their and they're. Their has to do with what belongs to or is associated with them (" their new car"), while they're is a contraction of "they are" ("when they're ready").
We can use there at the start of a clause as a type of indefinite subject. This means that we can put the actual subject at the end of the clause and so give it emphasis or focus (underlined below): …