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Luck and lucky - English Grammar Today - a reference to written and spoken English grammar and usage - Cambridge Dictionary
Luck and lucky - English Grammar Today -una referencia de la gramática del inglés hablado y escrito - Cambridge Dictionary
Luck is a derived term of lucky. As an adjective lucky is favoured by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune. Said of persons. As a noun luck is something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence. As a verb luck is to succeed by chance. As a proper noun Luck is {{surname|from=given names}.
When something like stupid me or lucky you is used as a subject, it requires third-person concordance not first- or second-person. This is done for distancing. Both matter, but the second may dominate. For the first matter, when we have a pronoun that needs an adjective in English, we use the objective case.
Luck is an uncountable noun, so we do not use it with the indefinite article a/an. We use expressions such as some, a bit of or a lot of to express amounts of luck: I’ve had a lot of luck with jobs over the years. Not: I’ve had a luck … When we talk about luck in general, we don’t use the definite article the: A lot of good things in ...
Mar 28, 2017 · Lucky is an adjective, which ordinarily can't be the object of a preposition, so we don't say You are in lucky-- we use the noun luck--You are in luck! – StoneyB on hiatus Commented Mar 28, 2017 at 17:01
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Happiness can come with luck, but not always, because luck is something different. If we’re lucky, we have good fortune. Gamblers need good luck. We didn’t win the lottery. I don’t know why you spend money on those tickets. One day we’re gonna be lucky. I want a pay raise. We all do. And I want a company car. We all do. And I want more ...