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Do you like New Zealand? What is the weather like in there?
Do you like New Zealand? What is the weather like there?
When there refers to a country, town or other place, do not put in before it: ‘My sister lives in New Zealand. She likes it there.’
In there is possible when it means ‘inside that place’, especially a room or building: ‘It’s cold in there.’
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When she finished, she went to there.
When she finished, she went there.
After movement verbs such as go, travel and drive, use there without to: ‘We drove there last weekend.’
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When we arrived, there was a sunny day.
When we arrived, it was sunny.
Use it to talk about the weather: ‘It was sunny.’ ‘It was a lovely day.’
Use there is/was to say that something exists or happens: ‘There was a storm yesterday.’
Check our grammar lesson on the difference between there and it.
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