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Rule "Possible agreement error: 'a lot/bunch/couple of' + singular countable noun"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Possible agreement error: 'a lot/bunch/couple of' + singular countable noun
Message: Did you mean to use the plural form here?
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • I have a lot of ball.
    Correction suggestion: balls
  • We see a lot of message similar to this one:
    Correction suggestion: messages
  • But I already share with a lot of guy who are here.
    Correction suggestion: guys
  • A lot of contest run about that length, or maybe 20m down and 20m back.
    Correction suggestion: contests
  • There is a slightly manual workaround, I don't know if you have a lot of site on this server, but PHP itself uses a concept not dissimilar to .htaccess.
    Correction suggestion: sites
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Or they may require a lot of technical set up.
  • Given that aszú conditions only happen in perhaps three vintages per decade, a lot of dry Furmint is also produced.
  • A lot of erotomania and the start of some decent paranoid delusions.
  • Keep - Original charge by the less than straightforward Rickk was "Non-notable blogger with a lot of puffery."
  • Did you put a lot of hairspray on that hair?
  • The fifth chart shows - the number of unique user sessions - this chart helps me to indicate if we have a lot of workload on our machines or not and during which timeframe we have our peaks.
  • Some people get a lot of carryover to their comp. deadlift from the trap bar, if you use it regularly in the future (as in after the meet) then you could probably lift a hell of a lot more in a short time.
  • Cylinders that have a lot of carbon build-up
  • I don't mean hot rodding, but a lot of stop and go with a lot of turns.
  • There are always a lot of regional qualifier meets between the district and regional meets and junior RB DaBryan Blanton of Forney had some great times at the one in Glen Rose Friday, running a 10.1 100 meters and 20.7 200 meters.
  • Most car owners do a lot of short trip driving and should follow the extreme schedule, not the normal schedule.
  • A lot of stg has to come out either for tariff or engineering reasons.
  • Unfortunetly they have made a lot of even conventional ones a pia to check because they removed the dipstick in a lot of auto's which is stupid.
  • It is just a lot of book to convince people to get into with no major incentive (for my group).
  • Over the weekend, a six-year-old Brooklyn boy reportedly suffered burns after his Galaxy Note 7 smartphone exploded in his hand, that's a lot of phone for a six year old.
  • There's a lot of upside to leaving it in.
  • FWIW, there seems to be a lot of backstory to the incident which makes it more complicated.
  • He is sitting on (like the rest of us) a lot of out of the money calls.
ID: A_LOT_OF_NN [2]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-11-06 22:33:08 +0100)