Dose anyone know how to use 'basically'?
We had the hotel to ourselves. There were basically no other guests there. ( In this case, basically can be used in place of almost).
Could you explain 'have something to someone’？ I am not really understand this structure.
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"Basically" literally means "essentially", "in essence", "fundamentally". In practice, it is a filler word which basically adds no meaning most of the time. Basically, you can use the word whenever you want to say something clearly and/or simply, especially in conversation. Basically, it's a word which native speakers overuse for basically no good reason at all. So basically, that's it!
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"We had the hotel to ourselves" is an idiomatic expression that means "we were the only guests in the hotel" or "other than us there was no-one else in the hotel".
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Yes, that use of "basically" is correct.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "have something to someone". Can you give me an example?
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