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What is the difference between somehow and for some reason ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between somehow and for some reason ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Somehow means I don’t know how something happened. I might know why, but not how.
For some reason means I don’t know why something happened. I might know how, but not why.
I lost my phone somehow and I can’t find it. I don’t know how I lost it.
No one wants to come with me to the game for some reason. I don’t understand why they don’t want to come.
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Somehow means I don’t know how something happened. I might know why, but not how.
For some reason means I don’t know why something happened. I might know how, but not why.
I lost my phone somehow and I can’t find it. I don’t know how I lost it.
No one wants to come with me to the game for some reason. I don’t understand why they don’t want to come.
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