"any" functions as an adjective or as a (pro)noun. Do you have any shoes? Do you have any blue shoes? Do you have any?

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Eq: modals can be inflected for tense but only syntactic tense. Excellent point, Eq, and it feeds well into the discussion, but I'm not sure every one here is familiar with the term syntactic tense .

It means to give a party. A party is a celebration in its own right.

JTT: My guess, Casi, though I may be wrong, is that this is a 'test' made up by non-native speakers. It's a good "guess", and one I took into consideration as well, JT, but given we don't

If I saw it in a BrE article, I'd probably think it related to some kind of Easter gift: fluffy baby chickens . . . . Chicks come in many colors. Literal meaning See NBC's slide show http://www.nbc10.com/news/2985204/detail.html

CJ: . . . "could" often means "would be able to", so in a way "could" sometimes contains the meaning of "would" within it. Agreed. Not true synonyms of course, as you noted, but close enough. My dialect shares that distribution. EX: I

I agree with Eq: The boy looked after the sheep. (Phrasal verb)

A. *This computer is the same like we saw in the other shop. B. This computer is the same as we saw in the other shop. C. *This computer is the same that we saw in the other shop. D. *This computer is the same as that we saw in the other

'They' and 'both' in "they both" are appositional just like 'we' and 'Japanese' in "we Japanese" are. . Interesting. . . I'd like to hear more about that. the result of googling is: 154,000 hits for "they both are ... " and 1460,000 for