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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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A lot

do we write: There is a lot of books or
There are a lot of books
  

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We write ' There are a lot of books ' unless we are at an auction, when we write ' There is a lot of books '. We say: ' There're /There's a lot of books '.

— Mister Micawber

  • We write ' There are a lot of books ' unless we are at an auction, when we write ' There is a lot of books '.
  • We say: ' There're /There's a lot of books '.
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We write 'There are a lot of books' unless we are at an auction, when we write 'There is a lot of books'.

We say: 'There're /There's a lot of books'.
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