--- David Barrow <davidab@...>
wrote:
> You snipped my explanation, but to summarise if
> you can use it as a noun it's a gerund
I understand that. And if it can be either, then
it's really neither! [Or both, if you prefer.]
> I don't know what alot is either I couldn't
> find it in my dictionary :- )
>
> Would you have a problem with 'one lot''
No. That's what a house is built on. Or what
auctioneers sell. Alot is quite different.
Padraic.
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