Some time vs. sometimes
Someone and somebody are singular pronouns and should not be the antecedent of a plural pronoun such as their, as in Someone forgot to wipe their shoes. The prohibition can be troublesome.Some time vs. sometimes. Some time means one day. It refers to an indefinite time, usually in the future.
- You will stay sometime?
- You've got to look at me, sometime.
- \"Mate,\" said Donald, \"we've all got to go sometime.\"
Sometimes is an adverb of frequency and means on some occasion or more than once.
- Sometimes depression is caused by circumstances.
- An aircraft accident investigation is a long, painstaking process in which the sometimes complicated sequence of events comes to light only slowly and frequently in the wrong order.
- If you really want to win in the game of life, you've got to be prepared to fail sometimes.
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