where there's smoke...

...there's fireworks! This is me and Mrs. Tamura.

By the way, totally random, but this post has reminded me of something I've only noticed since I've been teaching English here. In about chapter 4 of the grade 8 English textbook, the grammar point 'There is/are...' is introduced. Using these sentences in class made me realise how often we (native speakers) use them incorrectly in daily conversation. For example, don't you think you might easily say, "There's two books here," even though it should be "there are"? When you see it written here of course you can see that it's wrong, but I think you don't notice when you're speaking. I only notice because I have to take care to say it correctly for the students. I made this mistake once in class last year and didn't even realise until the other teacher corrected me! There's lots of things like this that I've come to notice about English usage... gotcha! Should be 'there are'.

I brought this up because I had to incorrectly say, "...there's fireworks!" in order to keep the style of the proverb, "Where there's smoke there's fire."

Does anyone even care??!