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His illness has caused him to miss a lot of lessons.
If you do not attend a class, meeting, activity, etc, you miss it: ‘If you don’t hurry up, you’ll miss
your appointment.’ ‘I’d hate to miss one of John’s parties.’
2
I don’t care if they’re lazy, as long as they don’t lose my time.
I don’t care if they’re lazy, as long as they don’t waste my time.
Waste your/sb’s time
= (cause someone to) spend an amount of time without doing anything
useful: ‘I wish they’d stop asking me silly questions and wasting my time.’
Compare: ‘The puncture meant that we lost a lot of time.’
lost
This morning I noticed that my purse was lost.
This morning I noticed that my purse was missing.
If something is not in the place where you left it and you cannot find it anywhere, it is
missing
(NOT
lost
): ‘Police are still searching for the missing diamonds.’ ‘She was making her way towards
immigration when she discovered that her passport was missing.’
Compare: ‘Oh no! I’ve lost my passport!’
lot/lots
1
She makes us do a lots of homework.
She makes us do a lot of homework.
She makes us do lots of homework.
a lot of
(WITH
a
): ‘I bet she’s got a lot of money.’
lots of
(WITHOUT
a
): ‘I bet she’s got lots of money.’
2
Lot of people come here because it’s near Morocco.
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