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Redkiddy Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

A lot of???

0Hi from Türkiye,02br
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00I have known that "a lot of" is only used with affirmative sentences. But in a book I saw this.02br
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00I haven't got many CDs = I don't have a lot of CDs02br
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00Is that correct?02br
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00Jim and Pete fight too much = Jim and Pete have too many fights02br
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00Fight is uncountable or countable ,which sentence is correct above?According to a book both are correct.02br
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0I don't have a lot of ...seems ok to me.02br
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00Jim and Peter fight too much - fight is a verb here, not a noun.0-
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0But I have been learning English for seven years and I have never seen this type of uses ,,in all grammar books I have read there was no uses of "a lot of " in negative sentence is given in the grammar books .02br
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00This was a strict rule " a lot of " is on ly used in affirmative sentences..0-
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0Interesting. I would say that it is an informal structure. If I were writing I probably use 'I don't have many' or 'I don't have much', but it does get used a lot informally.02br
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00I've just googled it and come up with 01b00673,00002b00 uses.0-
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00in all grammar books I have read there 11del10was12del10 were no uses of "a lot of " in negative sentence[ s ]12blockquote
10That's strange. "a lot of" is fine in negative sentences.02br
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