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Denmark
"how many days are in a week"
I would have thought is should be: how many days are there in a week.
Feb 1, 2015 18:12: Shera Lyn Parpia changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Feb 1, 2015 19:02: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Linguistics" to "Genealogy"
Feb 2, 2015 07:06: Tony M changed "Field (specific)" from "Genealogy" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
PRO (1): Charlesp
Non-PRO (3): Tony M, Victoria Britten, Shera Lyn Parpia
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
It's OK
Many people would drop the verb in speaking "how many days in a week" but that I'd consider ungrammatical
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Tony M
: Yes, even though the version with 'there' may be more familiar, the version without is very common too.
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Thanks Tony. Yes, very common without, possibly even more common
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Helena Chavarria
: 'How many days' is the subject of 'are'. If you changed the sentence for 'How many people live...', it would be quite clear.
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Thanks Helena:-)
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Jack Doughty
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Thanks Jack:-)
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Arabic & More
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Thanks:-)
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AllegroTrans
: Exactly
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Thanks!
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Cilian O'Tuama
: kindergarten stuff
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Phong Le
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Thanks:-)
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how many days are is a week
The option with there is correct too.
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oops, Typo regretted.
"How many days are in a week?"
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Carol Gullidge
: to me this sounds wrong. You don't want to believe everything you see on Google! If you type in a misspelling or some other error, you can almost guarantee there will be G-hits to support the errors// sorry, that was really aimed at the Asker!
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The answer is not based on Google.
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Jacek Kloskowski
: overlooking the typo, it is a correct and first answer
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:)
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Helena Chavarria
: Yes, if we ignore the typo.
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writeaway
: sounds wrong to me too. how many day is or are a week? no. neither is correct English.
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How many days in a week?
www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/docs/days_weeks_months.doc
Questions on days, weeks and months of the year. How many days in a week? How many days begin with S? How many days begin with T?
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https://moodle2.trafford.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=2710...
How many days in a week? How many seconds in a day? How many hours in a week? How many years in a century? How many years in a decade? How many ...
https://www.edexcel.com/.../GCSECompSci_ActivitySolutions_Y1...
How many days in a week? 0111. How many months in a year? 1100. How many fingers (including the thumb) on one hand? 0101. How many toes on two feet?
www.newtonscoaches.com/questionnaire
How many days in a week would you require the service?
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Tony M
: Yes, indeed, you're quite right!
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Thanks Tony. The Asker has given no context, not even the reason for asking the question.
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AllegroTrans
: And yes, there are other acceptable variants in speech, so your version is valid
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How many days are THERE in a week?
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1. Someone wrote: 'how many days are is a week' ... and without any capital letters and 2 agree!?
2. Someone wrote: 'How many days in a week?' This is not a sentence because there are no verb!
3. If someone asks you something, in a complete sentence, common sense dictates that you use part of the question in your answer. How many days are THERE in a week? In a week, there are 7 days.
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AllegroTrans
: For strict grammatical accuracy, yes, but Gallagy is right about speech
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In a week, how many days are there?
Not that the ways of saying it are wrong. ;-)
Discussion
I'm not complaining - genealogy is one of my specialist fields :) Just curious ...
If it has to fit the meter of a song or poem, it's fine
You don't need to apply the same grammatical standards to speech, people will say what they will say
For grammatical accuracy however, I go with 1045's answer
he short answer is, Yes you can omit there from the sentence "How much juice is there in the bottle?" without altering its substantive meaning. Though I haven't been able to find a reference work that addresses a specific example where there appears midway through the sentence, as it does in the OP's example, this is clearly an instance of what (in comments beneath the OP's question) John Lawler calls "there-insertion" and what F.E. terms "existential 'there.'"
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/190103/omitting-t...