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Norwolf Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

How many people?

Only members of her family were invited to the wedding.

That is a sentence without a context. I wonder how many members were invited.

All of them? Some of them?

Would you please tell me about it?
  

Top answer

norwolf I wonder how many members were invited. The sentence doesn't tell you that information. It has nothing to do with the number of people who were invited or not invited.

— CalifJim

  • norwolf I wonder how many members were invited.
  • The sentence doesn't tell you that information.
  • It has nothing to do with the number of people who were invited or not invited.
  • norwolf All of them?
  • That is possible, theoretically, but not likely.
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norwolfI wonder how many members were invited.
The sentence doesn't tell you that information. It has nothing to do with the number of people who were invited or not invited.
norwolfAll of them?
That is possible, theoretically, but not likely.
norwolfSome of them?
Yes. Some of them certa
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Many thanks, Jim. You perfectly analysed it in detail.
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In order to make it clear, we say:



All the members of her family were invited to the wedding.

All members of her family were invited to the wedding.

The members of her family were invited to the wedding.(all of them)

Some members of her family were invited to the wedding.




Some of the members of her family we
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norwolfIn order to make it clear, we say
It? What's "it"? I assume you're talking about making the original statement clear. But there is no need for that.

The original statement is completely clear, and has a shade of meaning all its own, which centers on the idea that certain people were not invited. This shade of meaning is comm
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Oh, great. Something special is never replaced.

Thank you again, Jim.
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