The part of the sentence 'was something false' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in a sentence in which you are asking if a statement is true or false. For example: "I thought he said the meeting was at 4 PM, but was something false?".
There's something false about it.
We count because homes count, because without them there is something false and unreal about a society's claim to be civilized.
Horton Scale score: 4. Gingrich won South Carolina in part because he made a convincing case for being the "true conservative" in the race, and this ad captures the sense that there is something false about Romney's embrace of the pro-life mission.
"Confidence is important," he said, "But ego is something false.
Pretty much everyone in authority had an uneasy sense that Dreyfus had been railroaded, and many who had no particular liking for Jews still felt that anti-Semitism was something worse than false; they thought it was vulgar.
"There's something innately false about performance," he told me.
"If they're impeding your path, that's something like false imprisonment, and the law allows you a bit of grey area," says Lance Harris, an L.A. bodyguard who's worked for Sylvester Stallone and New Kids On The Block.
According to such a view, it is possible that when John asserts "Stealing is wrong" he is saying something true, but that when Jenny asserts "Stealing is wrong" she is saying something false.
In a relation-designating account of moral goodness (say, Roderick Firth's ideal observer theory, to be discussed in section 5 of the main entry) it is not possible that when John asserts "Stealing is wrong" he is saying something true but that when Jenny asserts "Stealing is wrong" she is saying something false.
