• There is/ are - it is 9 a) 56.11.1 Read the theory. Are there similar structures in your language? Impersonal sentences are sentences where there is no natural subject. We usually have the word there or it in the subject position. We use: There + be to say that someone something exists. There is a museum in my town It + be for identification. There's a letter for you. It's from overseas. It + be for distance (It's 2 km from here to the city centre.), temperature (It's hot in here.), time (It's one o'dock.), weather (It's sunny today.) and in