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Navitasan Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

They might do anything

Which are correct with the given meanings:

1) If you think they might do anything about this, you are wrong.

Meaning; If you think they will do something no matter what about this, you are wrong.


2) How about doing anything to help them?

3) How about doing anything at all to help them?

Meaning: How about doing something no matter what/no matter on how small a scale to help them?


Gratefully,

Navi

  

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I'm a bit confused by your crossings-out. Where you crossed words out, did you perhaps actually mean to underline them?

  • I'm a bit confused by your crossings-out.
  • Where you crossed words out, did you perhaps actually mean to underline them?
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I'm a bit confused by your crossings-out. Where you crossed words out, did you perhaps actually mean to underline them?

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navitasan1) If you think they might do anything about this, you are wrong.
Meaning: If you think they will do something about this, you are wrong.

I've heard this pattern with that meaning, but it strikes me as a sort of defective way of saying it. I take it that it implies that the speaker doesn't believe that anyth

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