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- subject verb agreement - Is something plural or singular? - English . . .
Something is a pronoun, which is analogous to "a thing", that is an indefinite pronoun "A an" is the Old English for "one" and one implies singularity Thus, I found a thing that wasn't working I found something that wasn't working are the same in meaning, but 'something' is the commonly used version To pluralise your sentence, I would say: "Some things that are not working " "Some things
- pronouns - Something for anyone vs Something for everyone - English . . .
6 "Something for everyone" is an idiom or fixed phrase meaning something that appeals to all tastes Idioms can bypass strict definitions of words or grammar rules; the meaning comes from the entire expression and it can't be broken into logical parts
- Provide information on, of or about something?
That's indirect information, a hint, something that tells us she wasn't there then, but doesn't tell us anything directly It sheds some light but it doesn't relate to her directly Still, in a great many cases you can use the two interchangeably There's one more case when you use strictly on: Dirt Tools of blackmail
- usage of a something in the sentence - English Language Learners . . .
This requires the author to distinguish between the word something, particular entities which the word something may designate, and the set of entities to which the word something may refer In your sentence the author is referring to #3: a something is some particular member of the set ‘something’
- Is it Guide to. . . or Guide on. . . or something else?
Have you tried looking at similar publications? Is this within a corporate or academic environment? "Guide to" is certainly most common but there may be local stylistic quirks
- prepositions - provide something for or to sb - English Language . . .
With transitive provide sth to for sb, I think answer 2 is closer - to is more about giving or handing off something to someone, while for is more about something being made available to someone
- The difference in meaning between Have someone do something and Get . . .
To get someone do something suggests that you talked to the person and convinced or persuade them to do something - this structure has a similar meaning to get something done finally I got my dad to change his old car have someone do something, on the other hand, suggests that you arranged for the person to do something or caused them to do something, maybe by asking them, paying them, or
- idiomatic language - Am I missing something vs anything - English . . .
0 I'd say that something can be used in a more general way for when you are referring to any arbitrary number of things while anything would be better suited when the things are limited in numbers
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