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I have been asked by my student that which one is correct considering plurality and singularity of the word, there's lots to do or there are lots to do?

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    Referring to work in general, we would say There's lots to do, 'lots' being synonymous with 'a lot'. "There are lots to do" implies a large number of items needing to be processed in some way. See this question – Kate Bunting Dec 21 '21 at 09:56
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    Kate's answer is definitive here. A complication with other examples is that 'there's' is now an almost standard variant of 'there are' (qv), allowing 'There's hundreds of people in the street', at least in informal registers. – Edwin Ashworth Dec 21 '21 at 13:09
  • There's no discernable difference in meaning between "There's lots to do" and "There are lots to do", when talking of many items that require some kind of attention or procedure. – BillJ Dec 21 '21 at 18:08

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