（1）从与名词的搭配来看，some和any均可以与不可数名词和可数名词复数连用，表示“一些”。但some一般用在肯定句中；而any一般用在疑问句和否定句中
例句
a. I need some medicine to cure my cough.
b. Can you give me any advice?
c. I want to buy some computer books.
d. I don’t have any friends here.
（2）some的特殊用法
1）当你期待一个正面回答或要鼓励对方说“是”时，在疑问句中也要用some。例如：
a. Would you like to give me some advice?
b. Can I have some more wine?
2）some与数词连用时，表示“大约”，此时所表示的数量往往给人以深刻的印象。例如：
a. Some 1,500 passengers and crew died aboard the Titanic when it sank on April 14, 1912 after hitting an iceberg. It lies at a depth of some 4,000 meters, some 640 kilometers south of Newfoundland, Canada.
泰坦尼克号于1912年月14日撞上冰山后沉没，船上约有1,500名乘客和船员丧生。泰坦尼克号沉没于距加拿大纽芬兰以南约640公里处大约4,000米的深海里。
b. For “good”, the Chinese worked out a combination of “woman”and “child”. Once this combination process had started, there was no limit to it. The Chinese still use the system today, having developed it to the point of producing some forty thousand combined characters out of a few hundred original pictures of concrete objects. （用几百个象形文字创造出40,000个左右的组合字。）
3）some可与单数可数名词连用，这时some表示不确定的“某一个”“未知的”人或物。往往带有缺乏兴趣或蔑视的意味。例如：
a. A mirage is an atmospheric optical illusion of some object.
海市蜃楼是某个物体的奇特的光学幻影而已。
b. Some person at the gate is asking to see you.
门口有个人要见你。
c. —Two buttons have been off my new jacket.
我那件新夹克已经掉了两粒扣子了。
—Some bargain.
什么破烂货！
d. I don’t want to spend my life in some lonely little village.
我可不想把自己的一生消磨在某个偏僻的小山村里。