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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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a complement and a modifier
<There are lots of ice>
# Is it that "lots" is the noun complement and "of ice" is the modifier or Is it the other way around? ( "ice" is the head noun and "lots of" is the modifier)
# Is it that "lots" is the noun complement and "of ice" is the modifier or Is it the other way around? ( "ice" is the head noun and "lots of" is the modifier)
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It should be "There is lots of ice". f. "There are lots of people".
- It should be "There is lots of ice".
- f.
- "There are lots of people".
- While "lots" is by derivation a noun, in practice it is better to think of "lots of" as a set-phrase quantifier.
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It should be "There is lots of ice". "lots of ice" is uncountable, inheriting this property from "ice"; c.f. "There are lots of people". While "lots" is by derivation a noun, in practice it is better to think of "lots of" as a set-phrase quantifier.
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