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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
Whats the correct usage of something of something and somethings . . . Car parts or engine parts are things that can be replaced 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 The parts of a car are not necessarily car parts! This can only be learned through experience
Whats the difference between something and some thing? "Some thing" is much much less common than "something", however, so the only reason to write it as two separate words is to emphasize the "some" part (in contrast to "any" or "no" thing): I want to get her some thing for Valentines Day, but not just anything It has to be something she would like
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
grammar - Something to. . . . . or something for. . . . . ? - English Language . . . When talking about food, in many cases, you can use either, because if something is there "to eat" (you will be eating that thing), then it is also there "for eating" (for the purpose of being involved in the eating), but in some cases you can't Take, for example: There will be knives and forks for eating vs There will be knives and forks to
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
grammar - to do something vs. to be doing something - English . . . To do something: "This is a really big moment for us and for the team, to finally announce this game and finally begin to allow the community to connect with us and to grow around the game with us,” Bettner said To be doing something:
grammar - swap in (for someone or something) - English Language . . . "Swap in" typically means to put something in a particular place in exchange for something else Generally it means something new becomes active in use and something old is removed, the same as if you talk about replacing something If you swap in a video game or phone, you're trading in an old object, giving it to a store and getting something
prepositions - Whats the point lt;in of gt; doing something - English . . . On the other hand, "She made a point of going to the store" and "She made a point in going to the store" both work but mean different things to me In the first, she emphasized the fact that she was going to the store In the 2nd, she emphasized something else by going to the store What that something else was isn't stated Confusing, I know
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" –