>>8347363Your teacher sounds like a delightful person but you must understand that not all of them are the same. I had a fantastic English teacher my 8th grade year but the next two were terrible. And I can for certain tell you that ₐₗₗ ₒf ₜₕₑₘ ₘₐᵣₖₑd ₐₗₒₜ ₐₛ ₐ gᵣₐₘₘₐₜᵢcₐₗ ₑᵣᵣₒᵣ on my essays. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I still do not believe "alot" is a grammatically correct word. It simply is a mistake that caught on that people must learn to fix rather than keep making the same simple mistake.
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