Difference between "Some" and "Any"
What's the difference between these two sentences?
1. Do you have any problem?
2. Do you have some problem?
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virat1971 What's the difference between these two sentences? You have been asking many such questions. Often, "some" and "any" are not natural in them, as here.
- virat1971 What's the difference between these two sentences?
- You have been asking many such questions.
- Often, "some" and "any" are not natural in them, as here.
- They are not wrong, but they would require such unlikely contexts that it seems that you do not realize what they mean in the first place, so the choice between the two words is moot.
- " is so unlikely that I don't know what to say about it.
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virat1971What's the difference between these two sentences?
You have been asking many such questions. Often, "some" and "any" are not natural in them, as here. They are not wrong, but they would require such unlikely contexts that it seems that you do not realize what they mean in the first place, so the choice between the two words is moot. I would expect
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Let's start with some better sentences.
1) Do you have any sugar?
2) Do you have some sugar?
In 1) the speaker has no preconception of what the answer might be.
In 2) the speaker believes, at least to some small extent, that the answer will be 'yes'.
CJ
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