Do you have and want any?
Hi. Let's say you want to borrow a pencil from your friend, and before you ask about borrowing per se, you want to find out whether he has one. Which question is natural and correct? I think nos 1 and 3 are correct.
1. Do you have any pencils?
2. Do you have a pencil?
3. Do you have a pencil with you?
How about this? Let's say you're carrying a plateful of cherry tomatoes and want to suggest your quests to have some? Let's also say you don't want to use the determiner "some" and instead want to use "any." Is this correct and natural for the purpose? Thank you in advance for your help.
Do you want any cherry tomatoes?
Top answer
anonymous 1. 2. 3.
- anonymous 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- Do you have a pencil with you?
- They're all OK.
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anonymous1. Do you have any pencils?2. Do you have a pencil?3. Do you have a pencil with you?
They're all OK.
anonymousDo you want any cherry tomatoes?
Fine.
CJ
0Say #2.
Do you want any cherry tomatoes? But more natural English is eg Would you like some of these?
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