Question

Артикль i have got a lot of .... friends.

Answer 1

Здесь не нужен артикль!

Answer 2

Are
потому что там друзей в мн.ч.

Answer 3

The appropriate article to use in this sentence is "many" instead of "a lot of" as "many" functions as a determiner or a quantifier, indicating the quantity of the noun that follows it.

Therefore, the correct sentence would be: "I have got many friends."