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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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How is this sentence more natural?

Isn't there anything/something you can/could do to get her back?

How is this sentence more natural?

  

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There's no real difference here between anything and something . Isn't there anything/something you can do to get her back? can suggests the speaker thinks it may be possible to get her back.

  • There's no real difference here between anything and something .
  • Isn't there anything/something you can do to get her back?
  • can suggests the speaker thinks it may be possible to get her back.
  • Isn't there anything/something you could do to get her back?
  • could suggests the speaker does not think it may be possible to get her back.
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There's no real difference here between anything and something.


Isn't there anything/something you can do to get her back? can suggests the speaker thinks it may be possible to get her back.

Isn't there anything/something you could do to get her back? could suggests the speaker does not think it may be possible to get her back.

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