Which of the below sentences are correct?

1. Here is Shania's mock exam results.

2. Here are Shania's mock exam results.

Only 2. is correct. Plural "results" demands plural "are". This is called 'VERB AGREEMENT'.

PaulM

The trick with sentences that start with Here or There is to remember that those words are not the subject. (They are adverbs.)

So, just for second, put the opening word at the end of the sentence, and it all becomes a little clearer.

Shania's mock exam results are here.

Here's a lesson on subject-verb agreement.

The trick with sentences that start with Here or There is to remember that those words are not the subject. (They are adverbs.)


"There" can also be 'dummy pronoun' where it is most certainly the subject in something like:

"There was a nurse present"

PaulM

Are you saying "There was nurses present" is correct? I don't think it's helpful to think of it as a pronoun. Also, if you were to expand it to its antecedent, you would be left with an adverb of time or place.

It's an odd fish. That's for certain.

No, no! You misread my post. All I was saying was that the word "there" is not always an adverb; it can also be a dummy pronoun in examples like the one I gave in which case it is the subject.

Perhaps it was a bit off-topic, but I didn't want anyone to the think that "there" is only an adverb.

Paulm