if you find some particular subject difficult allot more time to it than the others
my question is about the grammar:in the sentence , why there is no subject before the word "allot" and why there is no stop between "difficult" and "allot". is it a formal usage? i got the sentence from a english book written by a english linguistician.

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Are you sure you copied correctly as that sentence is incorrect and should read ' If you find a particular subject difficult, allot more time to it than the others...You can not say some subject as some is a plural marker.

I also agree it would be better written with a comma after difficult. I'm not sure why they did not use one, maybe a misprint, maybe they felt it was ok without one.

The other way it could read is ' If you find some subjects more difficult than others, allot more time to them than the other subjects'

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