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Originally Posted by BobK  Also, the "any" makes this example sound very odd. Where did it come from?
If something 'never failed to attract visitors' it's attractive. If it 'never failed to attract any visitors', the phrase implies that most of the time it managed to attract at least a few visitors - and that the occasions when it attracted none were rare. The stress would be: 'never failed to attract any visitors'.
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Yes I missed that...I think it should be "any visitor". "Any" is used with a singular noun. I think "has failed" is better than "failed" too.
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The guesthouse is located in the hi-tech park, a nice and beautiful environment that has never failed to attract any visitor."