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"Are there...?" with and without the word "any"
I am wondering about the usage of the word "any" with the construction "Are there...?".
Does it makes any difference if I ask
Are there any books on the shelf?
or
Are there books on the shelf? … I barely ever meet such question sentences without "any", so it sounds unusual to me, but I cannot find any rule that would say that one variant is more preferable to the other. …
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