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sejpdw
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 Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: some |
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" In the spring of 1957, a large group of girls had their hair cut like Presley's by a hairdresser in Michigan."
This sentence can be inferred from the above sentence?
"There were some girls who imitated Elvis' hair style."
In my opinion, it can be because "some" in "some girls" was used as ' an unspecified number of ' or ' a considerable number of '.
But one of my friend said it can be or not because "some" also can be used as ' a small number of '.
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pinenut
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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Location: Illinois, U.S.A.
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: Re: some |
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| sejpdw wrote: |
" In the spring of 1957, a large group of girls had their hair cut like Presley's by a hairdresser in Michigan."
This sentence can be inferred from the above sentence?
"There were some girls who imitated Elvis' hair style."
In my opinion, it can be because "some" in "some girls" was used as ' an unspecified number of ' or ' a considerable number of '.
But one of my friend said it can be or not because "some" also can be used as ' a small number of '.
What's your opinion? |
Both you and your friend are right.
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.
I've got some friends coming over.
I have some important things to tell them.
[from Collins Cobuild - Lexicon] |
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