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Upstream Proficiency by Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley
With any luck, by the time their grandchildren are pensioners that figure may have reached the magic 100.
Could you help me understand why 'any' is used here. I'd say 'some'. It is a positive declarative sentence. As far as I remember, 'any' is used in negative and interrogative sentences.
With any luck, by the time their grandchildren are pensioners that figure may have reached the magic 100.
Could you help me understand why 'any' is used here. I'd say 'some'. It is a positive declarative sentence. As far as I remember, 'any' is used in negative and interrogative sentences.