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Frizzy Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

your potential is anything but?

Please someone tell me the meaning of this phrase:
Anyone who says your potential is anything but infinite is a terribly confused and misplaced soul.

The sentence given is taken from the Web as an example. I just need to understand the bold and underlined phrase. Thanks.
  

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A person's potential is what they could or can achieve. " Anything but " means "anything other than". e.

  • A person's potential is what they could or can achieve.
  • " Anything but " means "anything other than".
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A person's potential is what they could or can achieve.
"Anything but" means "anything other than".

This sentence is saying that everyone's potential is infinite, i.e. anyone can achieve absolutely anything they want to, and that anyone who says that your potential is anything else, i.e. anything other than infinite, or not infinite, or

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