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Originally Posted by mackerel
I'd like to ask the specific usage of the simple word 'some'. I'm re-studying English grammar at the moment, and I saw the following sentence in a grammar reference book:
'I've seen some good films recently.'
The book just says 'not "I've seen good films recently"'. Then I started to wonder how different they are, or we can't say 'I've seen good films recently' in any situation? etc. Could anyone possibly tell me the difference between them? I looked up some dictionaries but I couldn't find the answer.
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You could say simply that in certain types of English it is a quantifier, a way to denote that only a portion of the movies that they either saw or were seen were good. "I saw a lot of good movies." "I saw some good movies." Depending on where this English speaker is from can change the actual descrition, it would normally come out though that they only saw a couple or maybe one or two good movies