Lot has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword." | |
| 2. | We spent a lot of time looking for a parking lot. | |
| 3. | The Internet has a lot of information and thus also a lot of useless information. | |
| 4. | Who talks a lot, doesn't do a lot. | |
| 5. | Sentences can teach us a lot. And a lot more than just words. | |
| 6. | It's so easy to write good example sentences, that even if we accidentally delete a few good sentences in the process of getting rid of a whole lot of bad ones, I think we could drastically improve the quality of this corpus by doing a lot of deleting. | |
| 7. | Mister Petro and his wife love my children a lot; I love theirs a lot, too. | |
| 8. | I have a lot of friends who are native speakers, so I've had a lot of experience speaking with native speakers. | |
| 9. | A lot of people would like to become famous. However, a lot of famous people wish they weren't so famous. | |
| 10. | A polymath is someone who knows a whole lot about a whole lot. |