| Task | Alex, I hope you'll tell me ___________ good. |
|---|---|
| Answer | 1 |
| a | something |
| b | anything |
| c | some |
| d | someone |
| comment | Something, anything, some, someone etc. are indefinite pronouns. We use them to talk about a person, thing or place, when we don’t know who or what they are, or it is not important. We use such pronouns ending in -body or -one for people, and pronouns ending in -thing for things.In the test sentence ‘Alex, I hope you'll tell me ___________ good.’ the speaker refers to some good information – a thing, not a person: you’ll tell me what?. Therefore, we cannot use ‘someone’ here.We can use ‘some’ here neither as a determiner, because there is no noun after it, nor as a pronoun because after it the adjective ‘good’ is given without any noun. It could be possible to use ‘some’ here, if there was the noun ‘news’ after the adjective ‘good’: I hope you’ll tell me some good news.The indefinite pronoun anything can be used in affirmative sentences with a meaning that is close to every-: whichever person, whichever place, whichever thing, etc. (I can do anything for you.). But in this sentence the speaker does not mean ‘any/whichever information’, not any news, but he or she means good news. ‘Anything’ can be used in the question: Could you tell me anything good?Thus, the speaker refers to a thing about which he or she knows nothing, and the sentence is affirmative that is why we choose ANSWER 1 ‘something’ – ‘an object, situation, quality that is not exactly known or stated’. |
| topic | some,any, a lot of , many , much ,etc.. |
| level | 1 |
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