Just because someone wills something and it happens doesn't mean there is a causal link. Likewise you can will your car to start and it still not start, no special powers involved.
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; but under the circumstances it is entirely proper.
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Have someone do something WILL have someone TO do something Construction number 1 - To have someone do something - means: some explicit/implicit agent will delegate to someone the (task of) something (at some indefinite time in the future). e.g [I'll/I will] have my people call your people. [Let's/Let us] have our lawyers negotiate terms.
(Note: This question is marginally related with this one.) I am looking for a word to describe how obligatory something is. It may be mandatory, recommended or optional (given the context, more
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).
A client suggests something (actually, an edit to an existing item or a proposal for a new item) and I need to have two variables to refer to the following: The client that suggested the thing. The id of the client who suggested the thing. I couldn't just use Client and ClientId because it would be ambiguous in this particular situation.
0 I'd say that something can be used in a more general way for when you are referring to any arbitrary number of things while anything would be better suited when the things are limited in numbers.
idiomatic language - Am I missing something vs anything - English ...
However, wanting to know something new won't hurt, right? I've seen many people use this phrase, but I still don't get how to use it. I, first, saw this phrase on Facebook. It was a maths meme. The meme was about a difficult problem that's unlikely to be solved by hand. Someone commented Wolfram Alpha goes brrr (I hope I remember the comment ...
What does ' (something) goes brrr' mean and how to use it?
To "sit with" something, as in your quote, doesn't mean to fully accept it, but to consciously not struggle with it, so observe yourself thinking about it or feeling it. Sitting with something can help you come to accept it, or "come to terms" with it, but they don't mean the same thing. It's possible to sit with something, and still not accept it. (I'm honestly surprised "sit with" is not ...
With transitive provide sth to/for sb, I think answer 2 is closer - to is more about giving or handing off something to someone, while for is more about something being made available to someone.
prepositions - provide something for or to sb - English Language ...
To get someone do something suggests that you talked to the person and convinced or persuade them to do something - this structure has a similar meaning to get something done. finally I got my dad to change his old car. have someone do something, on the other hand, suggests that you arranged for the person to do something or caused them to do something, maybe by asking them, paying them, or ...
The difference in meaning between "Have someone do something" and "Get ...
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...
word choice - Do we say something for affect or effect? - English ...
'somebody takes hours to do something' Implication / translation: Somebody is doing some task, and it takes him hours. 'it takes somebody hours to do something' Implication / translation: In order to complete the task, it takes somebody hours. This emphasizes the sentence, and is commonly used if wanting to complain / make a point / hyperbolize ...
active vs passive - somebody takes some time to do something vs It ...
"There's something to it" is an idiom. The problem here is that we don't have a referent for "it". It surely isn't sleep - there is nothing unusual about sleep. Please give the preceding sentence (s).
That's indirect information, a hint, something that tells us she wasn't there then, but doesn't tell us anything directly. It sheds some light but it doesn't relate to her directly. Still, in a great many cases you can use the two interchangeably. There's one more case when you use strictly on: Dirt. Tools of blackmail.
I've been looking into the meaning of "ruin something for someone" in dictionaries, but cannot find any explanation. I'd like to know what it means in the sentence: "You ruined that...
Something is a pronoun, which is analogous to "a thing", that is an indefinite pronoun. "A/an" is the Old English for "one" and one implies singularity. Thus, I found a thing that wasn't working. I found something that wasn't working. are the same in meaning, but 'something' is the commonly used version. To pluralise your sentence, I would say: "Some things that are not working." "Some things ...
1 "I recommend you do that" is a polite way of giving someone an order or strongly urging them to do something. "I recommend you turn that malfunctioning laptop off immediately" means that you really should turn it off or something bad is going to happen.
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