INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

By

Mustafa A. Abdulkareem
 INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
Indefinite people things places
pronouns

some Somebody/one something somewhere

any anybody/one anything anywhere

no nobody/one nothing nowhere

every everybody/one everything everywhere

Indefinite Affirmative Negative Interrogative
pronouns

Somebody/one Somebody/someone
(a person but we has broken X X
don’t know who) the window.

something )a She has something in X X

thing but we her mouth.
don’t know what(

somewhere = Tom lives somewhere

in/to a place but near London. X X
we don’t know
where
Indefinite Affirmative Negative Interrogative
pronouns

Anyone X I didn’t know Where’s Tom?

anybody anyone at that Has anybody
party. seen him?

Anything X I didn’t buy Did you have

anything. anything to
drink?

anywhere X I’m not going Did you go

anywhere next anywhere
summer. interesting last
Christmas?
Indefinite Affirmative Negative Interrogative
pronouns

Noone/nobody Nobody came to class X ‘Who did you

yesterday. meet?’ ‘Nobody’

Nothing There’s nothing in the bag. X ‘What’s in the bag?’

or Nothing happened. ‘Nothing.’

Nowhere I don’t like this town. X Where did you go

There’s nowhere to go. yesterday?’
)no- with negative ‘Nowhere.’
meaning, without
not)
Indefinite Affirmative Negative Interrogative
pronouns

Everyone / Everyone is happy with his X Is everyone happy

everybody gift with his gift

Everything Everything is all right X Is everything all

right

Everywhere The police looked for her X Did the police look
everywhere for her everywhere
Thanks a lot