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13:19 Mar 1, 2012 |
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO] Linguistics | |||||
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| Selected response from: B D Finch France Local time: 21:53 | ||||
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4 +5 | It depends |
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4 +2 | any for all |
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4 | some/any in complex negative sentences |
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any for all Explanation: I think you would normally use 'any' in all of these sentences (though most of them are in any case highly stilted and unnatural) However, in those cases where you would have used 'some', I can see that 'some' might work, with a possible slight change of meaning. "I don't think he will be doing any work this Sunday" I get the feeling that if you could re-word the sentence so that the negative goes back to 'him', then you MUST use 'any' I don't think he will be doing any work this Sunday > I think he won't be doing any work this Sunday |
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