Re: More natural language questions

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > except with
> > expressions like "a lot of" which I've been taught to take as a whole,
>with the
> > preposition, since not all quantity expressions take it.
>
>That's probably a good way to view it, since it's often reduced to "a
>lotta" or "alotta", I've also seen it written.  It seems to be perceived
>as a single word by most English-speakers.
And let's not forget "lotsa".

                                    Andreas
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