for teachers of English and their students
Is the verb to refuse used with some‑ or any‑?
Although grammatically the sentence is not negative, verbs with negative meaning (such as to refuse) require any‑ (not some‑).
For example, a phrase like this:
They refused to tell us anything about it.
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