Should “some” or “any” be used?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 544.

Is the word order correct?

PRACTICE WITH QUANTITY

When we talk about quantity we use such words as:

Ask yourself these questions when checking quantity words:

a. We can use these words (except “none”, “a lot”, “half”) directly before a noun.

Have you got any money?

Both choices are equal.

There are some expenses involved.

b. We can use these words (except“no”, “every”) before of + the, her, your, this, etc. + noun.

Either of the choices will satisfy human wants.

Neither of them accepted the offer. Both the partners were busy.

Half (of) my friends earn their living.

After “all”, “half” and “both” we can leave out “of” before “the”, “her”, “my”, “your”, “this”, etc.

Both of the tradeoffs were evaluated.

But after “all”, “half”, and “both” we can't leave out “of” before an object pronoun.

– Have you counted the opportunity costs? – Not all of them.

a. We use any after the words with a negative meaning (without any, hardly any).

You can't make a choice between two possible uses of your
resources without any opportunity cost.

b. We normally use any in “open” questions ( we don't expect a particular answer).

Have you got any information?

But we use some in questions when expect people to say “yes”.

Have you got some information? (I think you have it).

We also use some in questions when we want to encourage people to say “yes” (in requests and commands).

Can you lend me some money?