a lot a lot a lot in this lesson we are
going to learn the difference between
these commonly confused words a lot
this means a large number or amount of
something so it just means many or it
can even refer to how often you do
something for example she has a lot of
rings she has a large number of rings
she has many rings
they all mean the same thing another
example is I have a lot of friends at
school you may also see a lot written as
lots of this means the same thing I have
lots of friends at school I dance a lot
a lot this is a verb and it means to
give to share or to assign something for
a purpose this may sound confusing but
it's very simple let's go through some
examples I am NOT a percentage of my
salary to charity here it means I give a
percentage of my salary to charity each
student was allotted five minutes this
means each student was given or assigned
a specific amount of time five minutes
a lot this is a common misspelling there
should be a space between the a and lot
like this now let's go through an
example sentence I thought I had a lot
of time to present my project but my
teacher told me that each student was
allotted five minutes can you identify
the meaning of the different words