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Vsuresh Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
something/anything
Hi
Please tell me if these sentences are grammatical.
Don't you have anything interesting?
( I think this can be said to the person who has been giving us things that we do not like.)
Don't you have something interesting?
(Can we say this to someone whom we turn to after having been bored by someone whose work we didn't like?)
Please tell me if these sentences are grammatical.
Don't you have anything interesting?
( I think this can be said to the person who has been giving us things that we do not like.)
Don't you have something interesting?
(Can we say this to someone whom we turn to after having been bored by someone whose work we didn't like?)
Top answer
Hi I think you have the first one pretty much right - I'll put on my old Rolling Stones album - Don't you have anything interesting? With the second one, in the circumstances you give, I would use the negative to the second person and the positive to a third person: - (Mr A to Mr B): My advertisement idea is a picture of a house - (Mr B to Mr A): Don't you have something interesting? - (Mr B, turning to Mr C): Do you have something interesting?
- Hi I think you have the first one pretty much right - I'll put on my old Rolling Stones album - Don't you have anything interesting?
- With the second one, in the circumstances you give, I would use the negative to the second person and the positive to a third person: - (Mr A to Mr B): My advertisement idea is a picture of a house - (Mr B to Mr A): Don't you have something interesting?
- - (Mr B, turning to Mr C): Do you have something interesting?
- Dave
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Hi
I think you have the first one pretty much right
- I'll put on my old Rolling Stones album
- Don't you have anything interesting?
With the second one, in the circumstances you give, I would use the negative to the second person and the positive to a third person:
- (Mr A to Mr B): My advertisement idea is a picture of a house
- (Mr B to Mr A): Do
I think you have the first one pretty much right
- I'll put on my old Rolling Stones album
- Don't you have anything interesting?
With the second one, in the circumstances you give, I would use the negative to the second person and the positive to a third person:
- (Mr A to Mr B): My advertisement idea is a picture of a house
- (Mr B to Mr A): Do
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