The phrase "assumed something else" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone has taken for granted a different idea or belief than what was actually intended or stated.
Example: "When she said she was busy, he assumed something else and thought she was avoiding him."
Alternatives: "presumed a different thing" or "took for granted another idea".
Yet despite all that, despite economic dysfunction and narrow corporate interests, this young man was aggrieved because he had assumed something else: an almost familial relationship with his employer, a bond of mutual concern.
"It's all about 'I want what's good for me and to hell with the other guy.' " The most sweeping societal clashes, are, at their core, deeply personal -- an accumulation of moments between people who didn't realize they were making assumptions until they collided with others who assumed something else.
We assume something else: that having reached the end of the quest, the boss wants to be pleased by his own team.
The Keys-To-Go assumes something else, and gets much closer to actual usage in doing so – it's designed for people who will occasionally type out longer things, but who mostly won't.
I think that's the problem, a lot of people assume something is happening, or someone else is doing it, when no one else has.
When the first example of a pliable translucent leather appeared this year on the runway at Fendi, many in the audience assumed it was something else -- latex, perhaps.
Because it was early in the hunt, they assumed they would find something else.
When you are shooting so close, people often assume you're photographing something else in the distance.
People who are not expecting gunshots will assume that they are something else because it does not fit in with their expectations.
And, if you don't like the vanity URL you currently have, MySpace is giving you the opportunity to change it to something else (assuming it's available).
They read articles I've published and assume I would enjoy something else to read.
