What is the scope of the quantifier "some"?
I am writing a term paper in English and am not sure which of the two sentences below is correct:
- some apples and pears
- some apples and some pears
What I mean to say is that there are some apples and that there also some pears. 1. seems (to me, a non-native speaker) more correct than 2. and 2. gives me the feeling that the second "some" is redundant. Do you have any suggestions?
Solution 1:
The first is what I have used and seen in this situation. I would agree that the second "some" in the second case is superfluous to the meaning.