Using Some as an Adverb: Usage Guide

Adverb

When some is used to modify a number, it is almost always a round number a community of some 150,000 inhabitants but because some is slightly more emphatic than about or approximately it is occasionally used with a more exact number in an intensive function. an expert parachutist, he has some 115 jumps to his credit — Current Biography When some is used without a number, most commentators feel that somewhat is to be preferred. Their advice is an oversimplification, however; only when some modifies an adjective, usually a comparative, will somewhat always substitute smoothly. When some modifies a verb or adverb, and especially when it follows a verb, substitution of somewhat may prove awkward. Italy forced me to grow up some — E. W. Brooke I'm not a prude; I've been around some in my day — Roy Rogers here in Newport, both Southern Cross and Courageous practiced some more — W. N. Wallace