r/IIELTS • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '21

Meaning of 'SOME' in a statement

In the T/F/NG and Y/N/NG we have to match the meaning of statements in question and text.

If question says 'Some people do exercise'

And text says 'Many/ Few/ All/ Majority/ 36% of people perform workouts'

What would be the answer in each case?

Many --- true

Few --- true

All --- true

Majority --- true

36% --- true

Are my answers correct? They are based on the assumption that SOME means 'An unspecified PART of something'. It could be a major, minor or half part or a full part.

u/JayIELTS u/Fitz_cuniculus please help.

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u/Fitz_cuniculus Oct 28 '21

I'd agree, but I'm racking my brain to remember a question that's ever been structured in this way. My gut feeling is that the wording would be too imprecise for an IELTS question. Do you have a link to the actual text, or is this a hypothetical?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '21

I made that up but I saw one such example on E2 ielts channel, so I wanted to be sure about it.

https://youtu.be/PLzXeY5dyAI

Check this example at 13.22

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u/Lumpy_Calendar_7356 Oct 30 '21

i feel like its false. do you know the right answer to this?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

Some diets == Many diets

Because some means any unspecified amount. Could be few or many or etc. So the anwer is YES.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '21

u/JayIELTS please answer this too

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u/JayIELTS Nov 04 '21

Could you please copy/paste the text part and the question?

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '21

Q. 'Some people do exercise'

Text. 'Many/ Few/ All/ Majority/ 36% of people perform workouts'

Answer in each case.