{"id":73428,"date":"2020-03-24T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73428"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:23:56","slug":"some-vs-any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/some-vs-any\/","title":{"rendered":"Some vs. Any"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Some\u00a0<\/b>suggests an indefinite quantity or number. It is most common in affirmative clauses. In questions and negatives, we normally use\u00a0<b>any<\/b>\u00a0to express the same idea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want some milk.<\/li>\n<li>Is there any milk left?<\/li>\n<li>No, there isn\u2019t any milk left.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Some\u00a0<\/b>can be used in questions that express offers and requests.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you like some coffee? (NOT Would you like any coffee?)<\/li>\n<li>Could I have some rice, please?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Any\u00a0<\/b>can be used in affirmative clauses after words that have a negative meaning. Examples are: hardly, scarcely, never, little.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You hardly give me any help. (NOT You hardly give me some help.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some\u00a0suggests an indefinite quantity or number. It is most common in affirmative clauses. In questions and negatives, we normally use\u00a0any\u00a0to express the same idea. I want some milk. Is there any milk left? No,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[210,209,2250],"class_list":["post-73428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-any","tag-some","tag-some-vs-any"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73429,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73428\/revisions\/73429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}