10.54 formal and literary uses

'Exist', 'remain', 'arise', 'follow', and 'come' can be used after 'there' to say that something exists or happens. These structures only occur in formal English or literary writing.

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Another construction commonly used in literary writing is to begin a sentence with an adjunct of place followed by 'there' and a verb of position or motion.

For example, instead of saying 'The old church stands at the top of the hill', a writer might say 'At the top of the hill there stands the old church'.