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A lot, alot, lots, allot


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hi my name is Emma and today's lesson is on a very very common grammar and

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vocabulary mistake

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so this is a mistake that both ESL students and native English speakers

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make so we are going to look at the words a lot a lot a lot and lots and

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also one more

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that's not in the title a whole lot ok so i hope you get a whole lot from this

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lesson

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so let's begin I'm so first we're going to cover the word a lot and notice that

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all of these words have the same pronunciation

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I just different spelling so a lot a lot is the same thing as a large number of

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it can mean many much so it just means a big number

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it can also mean often but we'll get to that in a second

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let's look at the first sentence i have furniture

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so if i have a large number of furniture

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great a lot i have a lot

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furniture is this correct

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there's something I'm missing oh now this is one of the major mistakes

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ESL students make they always forget the of with a lot so when you have a noun

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like furniture or books you need this

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so remember a lot of something

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ok now the word furniture is what is called an uncountable noun

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so this means we never have an S at the end of furniture

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it's never

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miniatures it's always furniture whether you have a lot or a little

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it's always furniture so it whereas book is a countable noun

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you look we have an s on any time we use a lot

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we need to pluralize if it's a countable mountain so we have other videos on non

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count and count nouns which you can watch if this confuses you

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but the main point is that if you're using a non-count noun

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you don't need an S with a lot of if it's a countdown

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you do need an S ok so I have a lot of books i have a lot of furniture

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I have a lot of friends I have a lot of cats so it just means a big number

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now the second way we use a lot is after a verb

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so in this case we are describing the verb to have a sentence I swim a lot

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this just means i swim often so in this case the word a lot really just means

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often i read often

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I drink tea often i paint

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well not often but i would like to paint more so I'd like to paint often i'd like

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to paint a lot

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so one thing that you can also do is we have the word here a lot a whole lot and

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lots

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how do these words come into our whole equation

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let's first start with a lot now in this case a lot

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it might look like this but in this case there's a space here

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I and with this a lot there's no space

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a lot of people accidentally right this way right

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I have a lot

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