the Bear SG "allot" is a word... means you are allowed to have a certain amount of something... "a lot" means many or much of something.. "a lot" may also mean "an allotment" of something... "lot" may also mean something like your destiny or your assignment in life.. used in a sentence like "this is your lot in life" ahhh.. the intricacies of the language btw, there is no such word as "alot"
choco B SG / is very conscious about her language now and starts running posts through the spell-check Be veeewy careful, I'm hunting grammar mistakes!
Rhonda SG I think for PSLE, I got A*. For 'O' levels, A1 for English and Literature. For 'A' levels... shoot!! I cannot remember!! I go dig my files...
the Bear SG her lot, your lot, or a lot of? Originally posted by fudgester: *me gives [b]a lot of honey-coated mice to the ferret* [/b]
Rhonda SG Originally posted by fudgester: *me gives [b]a lot of honey-coated mice to the ferret* [/b]'A lot' should be used on uncountable nouns, shouldn't it? Darnit... getting too confusing liao!
fudgester SG x3. Simply put, two years in the army with lots of exposure to Malay/ Hokkien/ Cantonese vulgarities can do much to blunt one's standards in English.
stellazio SG Yep, thats why one of the highest ranks in the Army could come up with Mee Siam Mai Hum.
Rhonda SG Reminds me of one idle evening at work when my Aussie colleague, one of the few Aussies who are actually good in English, and I sat down and tested each other in collective nouns! Try these : A G---LE of Geese A SH--L of fish / A SC---L of fish A B-V- of Beauties A -E-D of Buffaloes
hisoka SG so if you don't use a lot, then what do you use when you don't know the number? multitudes of? many?
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