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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’
I got something for you - English Language Learners Stack Exchange I'm sure I've got something for you is only "informal" in AmE insofar as it includes a contraction (in my experience, Americans rarely use I have something for you, which is the relatively formal BrE version) But my point was simply that (with or without got, contracted or not) AAVE doesn't use have in that way (much, if at all)
pronouns - A little something something? - English Language Learners . . . This is about something as in " something something " and what I perceive to be variations thereof : (1) [word] something something [word] (2) [word] somethin' somethin' [word] (3) A little something something (4) A little somethin' somethin' (5) A little something Of course it's about something that is not known My experience is that (1) and (2) are used when someone is trying to figure out
I got something for you. Got means brought or have- possession 3 To get something for someone, means to obtain procure something for someone It doesn't mean bought or have in the example Use of got here doesn't specify how the gift was actually procured It could have been bought, but we'd only know this from the context, for example, if we saw him buy it in a shop, or if somebody mentioned that he'd