Anonymous wrote:Okay, let's settle this contraction thing:
The original 18:04 post was, People who write, "OP, there's been a ton of threads on this..."
Un-contracted, the phrase quoted by this poster would read "OP, there has been a ton of threads on this..." -- and this is correct grammatically. There's = there has. And 'ton' is singular here.
I disagree. I read it as "posts" being modified, not "a ton". In my mind, I replace the colloquial "a ton" with the standard "many". "There HAVE been [many] posts on this topic." Though I can see how grammatically correct people could come to a different conclusion.