Timeline for "A way" or "any way" , what is correct?
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| Oct 18, 2021 at 2:37 | comment | added | Richard Winters | You have a good answer here. I would add that I feel that "any way" suggests that you are looking for one or more possible solutions, and hoping that such solutions actually exist. Similarly but subtly different, "a way" suggests to me that the speaker suspects that you, personally, have a secret method that has sofar been withheld, and you are asking/hoping that this one method will be used now. The singularness of "a way" vs "any way" is what makes it more direct to me. | |
| Oct 17, 2021 at 21:10 | vote | accept | Curious | ||
| Oct 17, 2021 at 20:34 | history | answered | Andy Bonner | CC BY-SA 4.0 |