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I Present Statements Negative Meaning General Action Event

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You use a_______ in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen .You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen .
We can't do anything.
Dad sat, not saying anything.
She couldn't see or hear anything at all.
By the time I get home, I'm too tired to do anything active.
I couldn't manage anything without you.
word anything
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You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen .
We can't do anything.
Dad sat, not saying anything.
She couldn't see or hear anything at all.
By the time I get home, I'm too tired to do anything active.
I couldn't manage anything without you.
You use anything in questions and conditional clauses to ask or talk about whether something is present or happening .
What happened, is anything wrong?
Did you find anything?
Is there anything you can do to help?
If there's anything I could do for him, I would.
You can use anything before words which indicate the kind of thing you are talking about.
More than anything else, he wanted to become a teacher.
Anything that's cheap this year will be even cheaper next year.
She collects anything that has charm.
You use anything to emphasize a possible thing, event, or situation, when you are saying that it could be any one of a very large number of things.
He is young, fresh, and ready for anything.
At that point, anything could happen.
He is convinced he just has to say 'please' and he can have anything.
You use anything in expressions such as anything near, anything close to and anything like to emphasize a statement that you are making.
The only way he can live anything near a normal life is to have an operation.
Only Cowans played anything close to his true form.
Plainer examples of the early period do not fetch anything like these sums.
When you do not want to be exact, you use anything to talk about a particular range of things or quantities .
The cows produce anything from 25 to 40 litres of milk per day.
inflections NEhng
cefr-level A1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1

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