- Whats the correct usage of something of something and somethings . . .
BUT parts of a car can also be understood as: the engine, the hood, the roof, the chassis, and not something replaceable as in something you can buy at an auto parts' store
- infinitives - Help to do something or help do something? - English . . .
The construction was "to help to do", But to help is used so often with an infinitive that speakers began to consider it something like a modal verb such as can, may etc and began dropping "to"
- subject verb agreement - Is something plural or singular? - English . . .
Something is a pronoun, which is analogous to "a thing", that is an indefinite pronoun "A an" is the Old English for "one" and one implies singularity Thus, I found a thing that wasn't working I found something that wasn't working are the same in meaning, but 'something' is the commonly used version To pluralise your sentence, I would say: "Some things that are not working " "Some things
- Should I use is something or are something for plural nouns?
Should I use is or are in this sentence? Vocabulary-based games is something that he enjoys the most
- word choice - Do we say something for affect or effect? - English . . .
Do we say something for affect or effect? For instance, if I give the description of a round ball, it seems that the word round is redundant; however, I have chosen to combine those words "for aff
- prepositions - provide something for or to sb - English Language . . .
With transitive provide sth to for sb, I think answer 2 is closer - to is more about giving or handing off something to someone, while for is more about something being made available to someone
- I got something for you - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I'm sure I've got something for you is only "informal" in AmE insofar as it includes a contraction (in my experience, Americans rarely use I have something for you, which is the relatively formal BrE version) But my point was simply that (with or without got, contracted or not) AAVE doesn't use have in that way (much, if at all)
- relative pronouns - something which or something that - English . . .
According to Korean English grammar books, nouns that ends with "thing", such as something, anything, generally take "that" as a relative pronoun But does that mean that "something which" is not
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