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"some forty people came"adverb(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
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"have some milk" "some roses were still blooming" "having some friends over" "some apples" "some paper"adjective(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
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"they were here for some weeks" "we did not meet again for some years"adjectiverelatively many but unspecified in number
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"we talked for some time" "he was still some distance away"adjectiverelatively much but unspecified in amount or extent
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"that was some party" "she is some skier"adjectiveremarkable
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Usage of some
- "colloquialism"
- "cant"
- "slang"
- "argot"
- "vernacular"
- "jargon"
- "lingo"
- "patois"