The engine, the hood, the roof, the chassis, and not something replaceable as in something you can buy at an auto parts' store. Should i use is or are in this sentence 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 It has to be something she would like Another possibility is that the writer uses separate words to emphasize the thing part (in contrast to some one)
To quote jim carrey quoting shatner from an old twilight zone There's someone on the wing Still, it is rare and the example you quote is more likely a typo than intentional. In your sentence the author is referring to #3 A something is some particular member of the set ‘something’ This is an unusual usage, because ordinary language is not designed for talking about itself
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. 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. 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).
I have a question about the usages of to do something and to be doing something What's the difference between them This is a really big moment for us and for the t. Is there a difference in meaning between something something and just something when using little (3 vs Is one less precise than the other Furthermore, is there a difference in meaning from using the contracted form (somethin' somethin')
