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Anabelle Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Everything else or anything else
Please help! Tell me which of the variants is correct here
People like cars more than anything else
People like cars more than everything else
Is that possible to find both variants being used correct here? Maybe there are English teachers here to tell me what variant is more correct from the literary point of view of the grammar .Thanks a lot!
People like cars more than anything else
People like cars more than everything else
Is that possible to find both variants being used correct here? Maybe there are English teachers here to tell me what variant is more correct from the literary point of view of the grammar .Thanks a lot!
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Hello, Anabelle. Welcome to the forums. They are both possible, but "everything" would require special circumstances, and I can't even think of one right now.
- Hello, Anabelle.
- Welcome to the forums.
- They are both possible, but "everything" would require special circumstances, and I can't even think of one right now.
- I can't rule it out, though.
- If all you want to do is make a statement about people's general preferences, only "anything" is right.
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Hello, Anabelle. Welcome to the forums.
They are both possible, but "everything" would require special circumstances, and I can't even think of one right now. I can't rule it out, though.
If all you want to do is make a statement about people's general preferences, only "anything" is right.
They are both possible, but "everything" would require special circumstances, and I can't even think of one right now. I can't rule it out, though.
If all you want to do is make a statement about people's general preferences, only "anything" is right.
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the sentence is taken from a text. There it is told about how cars have influenced people's life. I can't reproduce it right now. Even in this circumstances, it doesn't change the fact, as I've got..Does it remain "anything" anyway?
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Anabelle the sentence is taken from a text. There it is told about how cars have influenced people's life. I can't reproduce it right now. Even in this circumstances, it doesn't change the fact, as I've got..Does it remain "anything" anyway?If a writer chose "everything" there, I'd ask myself why, and that makes it an inferior word because I'd have been distr
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the point is that I was to complete the empty spaces in the text, choosing the right variant and here I was puzzled about the right variant. "Everything" or "anything".....the text was all about the cars...well, thank you!! Unfortunately, I'm afraid I made a mistake here, writing "everything", even though I knew that "anything else" is a more common combination used.
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