English term
someone or anyone
Would you use "anyone" or "someone" in the sentence below?
- She won't love **? ** who is not worth it.
Many thanks
4 +7 | both | Nesrin |
4 | anybody | Ali Bayraktar |
Feb 8, 2008 10:39: Marie-Hélène Hayles changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Feb 8, 2008 14:04: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Linguistics" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
Non-PRO (1): d_vachliot (X)
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Responses
both
She won't love anybody who isn't worth it.
She won't love someone who isn't worth it.
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Note added at 16 mins (2008-02-08 10:47:56 GMT)
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I think you would use "anybody" if you want to emphasize the ANYbody bit, the fact that she would never do something like that.
I would use "She won't love someone who..." if you were talking about a specific situation - e.g she dumped her boyfriend because she won't love someone who isn't worth it.
Thanks a million. |
anybody
Thanks a million. |
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