But For Some Reasons, Is this a correct way to say?

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"I inserted my comments; but for some reasons all of your comments had changed to blue and mine to red. "Thank you in advance for helping me.

Nona the brit · Accepted Answer

for some reason (singular).

NhanDinh · Answer

Thank you Nona the Brit for helping me.

Nhan

Believer · Answer

Why not "some reasons" but has to be "some reason"?

I think like this.

The determiner "some" has two meanings/functions -- one is to imply a multiplicity of things and the other is to kind specifically mention or identify one as it is being mentioned or being referred.

Examples

Give me some apples. -- implying a multiplicity of things/apples.

If you are worried about some aspect of your children's health, please do not hesitate to call us. -- here the determiner "some" is being used to refer to something in particular.

In summary, the determiner"some" can be used differently and be received differently depending upon/on how one uses that particular determiner.

PLEASE CONFIRM MY REASONING. THANK YOU.

My Qs:

1.Which one is the right one for the underlined part -- upon or on?

2. What is the adjective of the word "bold"? embolden?

Nona the brit · Answer

'If you are worried about some aspect of your children's health, please do not hesitate to call us. -- here the determiner "some" is being used to refer to something in particular.' this is the sense in which 'some' is used in ' for some reason' - it is an idiom and it isn't used with reasons. Of course, in other contexts 'some reasons' - meaning several reasons - would be correct. For example: List some reasons for visiting this English forum.

1) I'd stick with on.

2) bold is an adjective. what you are looking for is the verb. Embolden is the transitive verb - but I wouldn't say it gets used much.

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