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Grammar and Linguistics > There is lots of tourists??
There is lots of tourists??
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sdtykl
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There is lots of tourists??
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In a highly respected course book have I just seen the statement "There is lots of tourists" and I really wonder if it is possible to say so.
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16 Jan 2014
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ueslteacher
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Maybe it was a sentense in an exercise to find a mistake and correct it  Because tourists is a countable noun in plural, there are lots of should have been used... |
16 Jan 2014
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sdtykl
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lol, I wish it had been but not!
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16 Jan 2014
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cukurova
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It must be a publication mistake because as Uesl Teacher said tourist is a countable noun. |
16 Jan 2014
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sdtykl
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It was recorded, as well! The NATIVE presenter, the subtitle and the script all agreed :))
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16 Jan 2014
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sdtykl
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It was recorded, as well! The NATIVE presenter, the subtitle and the script all agreed :))
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16 Jan 2014
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yingwenlaoshi
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Well, I �ve read somewhere about this controversial point because I used to meet the same stuff in other books before. So, some native teachers say that "there is a lot of books/people/whatever" is used in spoken English, though it is condirered to be grammatically incorrect. "There are a lot of books/people/whatever" is the correct one. |
16 Jan 2014
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cunliffe
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People do say, �There �s lots of ... � but it should of course be �There are lots of � or �There is a lot of.. �
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16 Jan 2014
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serzt
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Native speakers sometimes say "there �s" for plural things. In one of the BBC videos edited by Speakout series the native speaker says "There �s bars".
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16 Jan 2014
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MoodyMoody
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I agree that this is a mistake that should never have made it into a grammar book. However, we native speakers sometimes screw up our own language, too. |
16 Jan 2014
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