A short English video lesson about the real meaning of some and why translating it simply as “a few” or “a little” does not work.
Inside this lesson:
✔ the core idea behind some
✔ some with countable and uncountable nouns
✔ some for unknown identity: some guy
✔ some for approximation: some twenty students
✔ emphatic some: That’s some car!
✔ the difference between some and any
✔ why understanding meaning works better than memorizing translations
This lesson helps English learners see several apparently different uses of some as parts of one coherent semantic system.
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Some Is Not “Some”: Why One Small English Word Means Five Different Things
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Author: Tymur Levitin
Founder & Director, Levitin Language School / Language Learnings
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