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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Everything/anything
Do you accept both of them?
The material felt softer than everything/anything she had ever touched before.
The material felt softer than everything/anything she had ever touched before.
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Anything. It's softer than any one thing she has touched before. If you said 'everything', that would mean it was softer than everything she'd ever touched put together, which is a bit of a strange concept!
- Anything.
- It's softer than any one thing she has touched before.
- If you said 'everything', that would mean it was softer than everything she'd ever touched put together, which is a bit of a strange concept!
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Anything. It's softer than any one thing she has touched before. If you said 'everything', that would mean it was softer than everything she'd ever touched put together, which is a bit of a strange concept!
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The material felt softer than everything/anything she had ever touched before
if your sentence is positive you're using "everything" if not you're using "anything" (Anything is being used in question sentences and negative)
If we check your sentence out, Use everything
if your sentence is positive you're using "everything" if not you're using "anything" (Anything is being used in question sentences and negative)
If we check your sentence out, Use everything
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As a native speaker, I would say "anything" and expect to hear "anything" but from a grammar standpoint, they really should mean the same thing.
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