Name: Learn the many uses of "SOME" in English
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I don't have something like that to pay for it.

Some a simple enough word, but like many things that seem simple to actually explain it properly is not easy.

So we're gonna take the time today and we're going to go through this word now.

Well some is used in english as a determiner but it's also used as a pronoun and adjective and an adverb and that's what I meant.

So you'll see it in sentences and you'll think what's it doing there.

The other thing is we can take the words some and added towards to make the world more formal or we can make it much more casual, right?

So we can go from business english, two bar english just by using the words some and that's kind of cool.

So I thought it'd be really good that we took the time to go over it and he agrees with me because he wants to be helped me out here.

Alright, anyway, before this lesson gets tiresome to started on it, why don't we go to the board check out how some is used.

We can talk about how where you shouldn't get confused by it because there's another word that's similar to it and we'll break into the four parts and give you examples.

Okay let's go to the board and get started.

This is a nice fancy word for meaning we don't know.

Remember if you've heard the word specific specific means something like one or two or this rag.

This bracelet, it's very very specific when it's not it's an approximate.

So we don't know really what the number or the sizes.

We do know something about somebody we know it's more than one or two but it's less than many.

I'm doubting you guys are going to give me a million dollars.

You might give me five, probably more than a dollar or two because I said give me some money, right?

You might give me 56, maybe 34, but you're not going to give me a million.

And that's how we know some falls in that ball park or that area there.

Now we don't want to confuse some with its homonym.

Some um this has two particular meanings which is different than the unspecified meaning of this sum.

But what's the difference when you see this word here, it means a particular amount of money and that means it could be a large sum or a small sum and you'll hear people say it like that.

And if it's a large sum, it means a lot of money.

But we are talking about money specifically.

So a large sum would be a lot of money and a small sum would be a small amount of money.

So if you say he asked a large sum for a bottle of water, that means he asked for a lot of money for this water or the house was a small sum.

The second meeting for this some is the total result of adding items or numbers.

You'll primarily find this word here in mathematics when you add two numbers together, when you have that plus sign and you say two plus two.

When we put things together, you can also have some venting any two items.

The sum of a man is not his parts meaning when you take all the things together, there could be more to that man than just the sum of his parts.

And that's when we take items because it doesn't have to be just numbers for instance, the some of your skills doesn't equal who you are as a person.

That's a big philosophical statement for saying just because you can run re jump play baseball, that's still not who you are.

So now that we've got this one out of the way, but you've learned a second word, you're welcome.

Let's go back to some and we'll talk about how some Is this simple yet.

I'd like to say simple elegance but it's got so much complexity to it.

And we'll look at how some can be used as a pronoun, an adverb adjective and a determiner.

So the first we're gonna look at is some as a pronoun.

As you see in this sentence, we have some have left already.

Well we could say they have left already.

So remember how I said it can replace words and if I didn't mention it at the beginning, some can actually replace another word.

And this is how we do it with pronouns instead of they have left already.

Let's go back to the board an unspecified amount.

So we don't know if it's 345 or six but some have left.

For an example, as a determiner, determiner tells us what we're talking about.

It determines the object we're talking about and you know the or the and or a are also determine hours, right?

So when I say please bring some chairs, this is what's determining how many chairs.

Now, once again, I'm gonna go back to the top of the board.

Maybe I'm having some friends for dinner and I've got a small house or maybe a medium house probably want 345 chairs.

Alright then we determine that number being less than many, but more than one or two by some chairs.

I wouldn't know what that meant in english, but I know I need a number of chairs but not too many.

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