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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.
- 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"
- 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.
John lied to me. He lied to me. Someone lied to me.
proper noun
personal pronoun
indefinite pronoun