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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

a great deal of time

I spent a great deal of time there.

Please explain the highlighed group of words.
  

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I spent a lot of time there. It suggests that you have been there many times, not that you went there once and waited for a long time.

  • I spent a lot of time there.
  • It suggests that you have been there many times, not that you went there once and waited for a long time.
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I spent a lot of time there.

It suggests that you have been there many times, not that you went there once and waited for a long time.

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