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Teacher Nuria

• no one or nobody
• nowhere
• nothing

• We can use these words alone. What happened? Nothing
• You can use these words after a verb, specially after be and have. There's nobody in the house. / He have nothing to eat.

• We don't use a negative verb with these pronouns because the particle "any" already indicates negation.

I said nothing / Nobody tells me anything

• no one and nobody are singular words, but we often use they/them/their after these words. Nobody in the class did their homework.

peopleplaces things

• someone
• somewhere
• something

• Someone has knocked on the door.
• We can go somewhere at the weekend.
• Do you want to eat something?

In offers and requests

(people) (places)(things)

• anyone = anybody
• anywhere
• anything

• We use any in negative sentences. I didn't say anything.
• We can use any in affirmative sentences when the surrounding words already indicate negation. He refused to eat anything. / Hardly anybody passed the exam.
• any also means "it doesn't matter which/what/who"

I'm so hungry that I could eat anything (it doesn't matter what)

• anyone and anybody are singular words, but we often use they/them/their after these words. Someone has forgotten their umbrella. (=his or her umbrella)

(singular words

• every one = everybody
• everywhere
• everything

• everybody, everyone and everything are SINGULAR nouns, so we use a sing verb, but you can use they/them/their after everyone/everybody.

Everybody has arrived.Everybody said they enjoyed themselves.Everyone = only for people (Everyone enjoyed the party)Every one = for things or people (Sarah is invited to lots of parties and she goes to every one)

John lied to me. He lied to me. Someone lied to me.

proper noun

personal pronoun

indefinite pronoun