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usage of a something in the sentence - English Language Learners . . . It is drawn from an essay ‘On Nothing’, which (with some degree of playfulness) inquires into the meaning of the word nothing—particularly as it contrasts with the notion of something This requires the author to distinguish between the word something, particular entities which the word something may designate, and
prepositions - provide something for or to sb - English Language . . . Answer 2: The general distinction is that "provide something to someone" says that it's provided directly to the person concerned Whereas with "provide something for someone", it might be provided to an intermediary For example, a food-product company may provide a range of foods for vegetarians, but they provide the products to a retailer
word usage - owing to something vs. owed to something - English . . . The following is an excerpt from a book adopted by hundreds of universities As we do for deep learning more broadly, in this book we adopt the machine learning perspective, focusing on RNNs as practical tools that rose to popularity in the 2010s owing to breakthrough results on such diverse tasks as handwriting recognition (Graves et al , 2008), machine translation (Sutskever et al , 2014
usage of the but-a phrase - English Language Learners Stack Exchange I'd expected something like this: I am anything but not a common man He is nothing but a common dog (Side question, what are the words 'anything' and 'nothing' in the sentence called?) In the absence of words like 'anything' and 'nothing', I'm unable to make sense of the sentences Does it imply that he is a common man or not?
It is missing something. VS There is something missing. VS . . . The first sentence probably doesn't suit your context, "it" needs a referent; but, as far as I can understand, you are mentioning that something unknown is missing Unless you already mentioned what "it" is in the previous sentence Example: A: Why do I have a strange feeling about that painting? B: I know! It is missing something
infinitive vs gerund - to afford *doing* something - English Language . . . Another thought interpreting the "small number of results" as "meaning something" has a sampling bias If there were less books and more unscripted speech, you would have different numbers snailplane touches on this in the analysis of five results for "afford going" –
Have something done or have + object + past participle? Have + object + past participle (have something done) We usually use 'have something done' when we are talking about paying someone to do something for us Note it is usually I know he has moved heaven and earth [to have all the formalities completed] by today's meeting The to-infinitive clause is a construction involving the causative verb have
I got something for you. Got means brought or have- possession A: I got something for you (Then A gives B a present he bought for her) B: Thank you so much I don't know what the meaning of "got", I think that "got" here has one out of the two meanings below, but I don't know which one: 1 "Got" is the past tense of "get" I got something for you= I bought something for you
Count on and Count with usages - English Language Learners Stack . . . I believe count with should be used when I'm telling something like: I can count with my fingers And count on could be used in situations like: You can count on me I've heard a sentence from a friend that sounds incorrect for me: It is from a friend you can always count with Is this sentence correct? Shouldn't it be