Yo should never correct your own ear for dialogue or sense of a character's voice because some teacher you had would've made you fix the subject-verb disagreement, word choice, tensing error, etc., that happened organically as you wrote it.
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I.e., "There's still some things I don't understand."
One could argue that it should be "There are still some things." because "things" are plural. But the speaker didn't write out the sentence and diagram it in advance. Would they have known how the sentence would turn out?
One could argue that it should be "There are still some things." because "things" are plural. But the speaker didn't write out the sentence and diagram it in advance. Would they have known how the sentence would turn out?
Maybe they were starting to say "Maybe there's something I don't understand." and decided mid-stream not to limit it to one thing. Or "a thing or two", a case which is grammatically singular or plural based on which side of the conjunction you're on.
And maybe, as far as the person's sense of stringing together words into speech is concerned, the contraction "There's" means nothing more or less than "I assert the existence of..."
Honestly, in practical terms, "there's/there is" is more or less an interjection used to frame a declaration.
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