Advantage

Hi Taka,

Please provide a sentence/context as an example to discuss.

Thanks, Clive

Does that mean 'some advantage' itself is ambiguous, Clive?

Hi,

Things you ask about are often ambiguous, Taka.

Consider this simpler example.

We need some bread

CliveHi,
Things you ask about are often ambiguous, Taka.

Hi,

I must admit I'm a bit reluctant to jump into an area that has already been discussed.

Clive

You don't have to jump in there, Cilve.

Could you just tell me what you think, how you would interpret this 'some advantage'.


Animals behave in this way for the same reason that, in other circumstances, they fight or drive each other away: because they or their young gain some advantage.

Hi,

Does 'some advantage' mean 'some kind of advantage' or 'some amount of advantage'?

Animals behave in this way for the same reason that, in other circumstances, they fight or drive each other away: because they or their young gain some advantage.

It's rather ambiguous, but I lean towards 'some amount of advantage'.

My thinking is this.

TakaDoes 'some advantage' mean 'some kind of advantage' or 'some amount of advantage'?

In the context of this thread and the other one referred to, neither, in my opinion. It is an uncountable a countable singular, and it means an (unknown and therefore unspecified) advantage.

-- Why is Michael Phel

CalifJimIn the context of this thread and the other one referred to, neither, in my opinion. It is an uncountable singular, and it means an (unknown and therefore unspecified) advantage.

Jim, did you mean to say a 'countable' singular?

Takadid you mean to say a 'countable' singular?

Hee! Yup! I'll go back and change it.