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.
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.