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My grammar book says:

> Adverb particles are often fronted when giving instructions to small children.

> Off we go!

> Down you come!

What if I wanted to express the same meaning but when speaking to other people than small children. Should I just remove fronting? E.g. 'We go off!' or 'You come down!'? Or maybe it would be 'Let's go off!' and 'Come down!'? Also 'go off' in the first example means 'leave a place', right?

The internet seems to suggest that it should be 'a dozen eggs' (not 'a dozen of eggs'), but I'm not so sure.

A. 'a dozen of eggs' uses the structure: a/an + singular noun + of + plural verb. You can find examples of this structure in dictionaries:

• https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dozen (the 3rd example)
• https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/dozen (the 2nd example from the Corpus)

B. We say things like 'a crowd of people', 'a flock of birds', 'a bunch of bananas' etc., which are very similar.

C. It's possible to find real-life examples of the phrase 'a dozen of eggs' itself:

>Take a dozen of eggs, a quart of cream and as much flour as will make it into a thick batter

– The Household Companion: Hundreds of Menus and Remedies

So who is right here?