How to use some in a sentence Using some as an adverb Each year with food, housing, healthcare, and hope Community, we’re driven by love, service, and advocacy. Some is a determiner and a pronoun … we use some before nouns to refer to indefinite quantities
Although the quantity is not important or not defined, using some implies a limited quantity … we use some as a pronoun (i.e Without a noun following) when the noun is understood Our fundraiser will soon be over, but we're short of our goal If you've lost count of how many times you've visited wikipedia this year, we hope that means it's given you at least $2.75 of knowledge If everyone who finds wikipedia useful gave $2.75, we'd hit our goal in a few hours
However, some, unlike sum, refers to an unspecified amount If you have some money in your pocket, who knows the sum of that amount Some can also refer to an unknown person or thing If a person you don't know shows up, you might refer to him as some guy. some. (a) certain unknown or unspecified Some lunatic drove into my car
Functioning as sing or plural) Some can teach and others can't An unknown or unspecified quantity or amount of There's some rice on the table You use some in front of the plural form of a noun to talk about a number of people or things, without saying who or what they are, or how many of them there are. We use the weak form of some in affirmative sentences and in questions (usually expecting the answer ‘yes’), when the quantity is indefinite or not important (we use any in questions and negative sentences):
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