Well, like the title of this discussion, I use "English speaker or speakers",that just is what I want to know.
I Feel Really Puzzled about this, I'm not sure this English question will make me feel messy and messy.
An American people told me any+pen/eraser/dog...not pens/erasers/dogs. Because "any"mean"a". But there still are some English speakers think that should use such as pens, erasers and dogs behind the word "any".
That let me remind since I looked there was an essay had many corrections, each one of them is different from the others, and some corrections still was wrong or had some mistakes,and to that writer, because of he/she isn't a Chinese and he/she was learning Chinese that she/he didn't know what is right and what is wrong!
so that's my question,help me!
"Any" may be used with singular or plural nouns.
I can cite the Cambride Dictionary as a source:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/search/british/?q=any
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/any
The Oxford English Dictionary agrees:
Use your example in a sentence.
If you use "any" before a noun, it is singular.
So for your star example, the correct one is: We do not have any star.
'any' means anything.
For example:
Do you want any pens?
Do you sell any erasers?
You're confused whether to use 's' or no 's'
As i said, any means anything. Anything = many type.
<em>so, if you use 'any' . u must put 's' infront</em>
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(╥﹏╥)oh no...
anyway thank you all the same my friends, but this is what I worried when I wrote the discussion. I don't want to see big differece between your answers and I know you are all English native speakers.
i really have an American friend and he told me should use singular behind the word "any" at all. He was very confident and sure, to him, a person who enjoy correcting Chniese and English essays here so I don't understand if no singular is true then he will be wrong?
But most of the English speakers tell me I should use no singular.
And I know we change "some" into "any" for ask and negative,"some"+plural,if "any" still have this character,then will be clear.
And I have a Chinsee friend, he tell me:1与不可数或复数名词连用，用于否定句和疑问句。2与单数可数名词连用，表示“任一”.(plural and singular are both right)
Anybody else?
You can also put 's even if there's a noun,what you must look at is if it's singular for example "pen" or plural "pens".But it depends on the structure of the sentence.Correct me if I'm wrong.
