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