There is a coffee shop ,a grocery shop 为什么用is

There is a coffee shop ,a grocery shop 为什么用is
There is a coffee shop ,a grocery shop 为什么用is

There is a coffee shop ,a grocery shop 为什么用is
COFFEE SHOP是单数,
there be 句型有一种就近原则,就是BE动词单复数看它后面跟的第一个单词是单数还是复数.

因为紧接动词的第一个事物是单数，而且此时后面的的内容是对事物的列举。

整个句子是
There is a coffee shop, (and there is) a grocery shop
从句的 and there is 是隐含/冗余的。

Who does that shop assistant think he is? He behaves as if he ___as if,似乎；好像。如果从句内容不是事实，经常用虚拟语气。 这里，按照语境