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Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ======Something, anything, everything, nothing etc. ====== =====Introduction===== <html><p><img height="119" id="1729" style="width: 111px; height: 94px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1729_d9efbdb589cc8462ab83f173019cec8b.png"> <b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Don't tell <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span>.</span></b> </p></html> =====Definition===== <html><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Someone</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>somebody</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>something</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>anyone</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>anybody</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>anything</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>everyone</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>everybody</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>everything</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>no one</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>nobody</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>nothing </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>are pronouns.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Somewhere</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>anywhere</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>everywhere </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nowhere </span>are adverbs.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b> </p></html> =====Construction===== <html><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>There are lots of possibilities. Here are some examples:</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <table width="697" style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; width: 522.8pt; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 1.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""> <tbody> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="168" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 125.9pt;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 134.65pt;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Affirmative sentences</span></b></p></td> <td width="170" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.6pt;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Negative sentences</span></b></p></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 134.65pt;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Interrogative</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="168" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 125.9pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Someone, somebody, something</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>somewhere</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 134.65pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I met <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">someone</span>.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She went <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">somewhere</span>.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="170" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.6pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>[rare]</span></b></p></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 134.65pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Did you meet <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">someone</span>?</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Did she go <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">somewhere</span>?</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="168" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 125.9pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Anyone, anybody, anything, anywhere</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 134.65pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>[see notes on 'if' and affirmative sentences below]</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="170" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 127.6pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I didn't meet <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span>.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She didn't go <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anywhere</span>.</span></b></p></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 134.65pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Did you meet <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span>?</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Did she go <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anywhere</span>?</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="168" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 125.9pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Everyone, everybody, everything, everywhere</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 134.65pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I met <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span>.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I looked <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everywhere</span>.</span></b></p></td> <td width="170" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.6pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I didn't meet <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span>.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I didn't look <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everywhere</span>.</span></b></p></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 134.65pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Did you meet <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span>?</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Did you look <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everywhere</span>?</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td width="168" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 125.9pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>No one, nobody, </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Nothing, nowhere</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 134.65pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I met <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">no one</span>.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I went <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nowhere </span>yesterday.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="170" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.6pt; background-color: transparent;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.clker.com/clipart-3592.html"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><!--?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" /--> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" style="width: 12pt; height: 12pt; visibility: visible;" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Red X Cross Wrong Not Clip Art" o:button="t" o:spid="_x0000_i1025"> </v:shape></p></span></a><p> </p><p> <img height="18" id="40" style="width: 18px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></p><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></span></td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 134.65pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Did <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">no one</span> arrive on time?</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Did <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nothing</span> arrive in the post?</span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We can use <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone </span>etc. after 'if' or the idea of 'if': <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>If <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span> needs help, please ask.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Anything</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> you can do to help will be useful. [if you can do anything]</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><br></span></b></p></html> =====Subject verb agreement===== <html><P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=ecxmsonormal><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; ; " lang=EN-US>We use the 3<SUP>rd</SUP> person singular verb with all these pronouns. For example:</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=ecxmsonormal><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; ; " lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.25pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=ecxmsonormal><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0000cc; ; " lang=EN-US>Someone</SPAN></B><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; ; " lang=EN-US> is going to call me back.</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.25pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=ecxmsonormal><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; ; " lang=EN-US></SPAN></B><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; ; " lang=EN-US>Is <SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">anything</SPAN> wrong?</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.25pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=ecxmsonormal><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0000cc; ; " lang=EN-US>Everything</SPAN></B><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; ; " lang=EN-US> looks great.</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.25pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=ecxmsonormal><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0000cc; ; " lang=EN-US>No one </SPAN></B><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; ; " lang=EN-US>wants to go to the meeting.</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=ecxmsonormal><B style=""><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; ; " lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=ecxmsonormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; ; " lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"></SPAN><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P></html> =====Uses===== <html><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The pronouns can be used as subjects or objects:</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Anyone</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> can come to the seminar. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I didn't see <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span> I know at the seminar.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><font color="#000000">Note that:</font></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>1.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Someone </span>= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">somebody</span></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>anyone </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>=<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> anybody</span></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>everyone</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everybody</span></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>no one <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nobody</span></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There is no difference in meaning. They all refer to people and we can use 'one' or 'body'.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">No one </span>is sometimes written as 'no-one'.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Something</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anything</span><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everything </span>and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nothing </span>refer to things.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Somewhere</span><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anywhere</span><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everywhere </span>and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nowhere </span>refer to places.</span></b> </p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"> </p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.3pt;"><strong><font face="arial">5.</font></strong> <b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>No one </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>and<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> nobody </span>= 'not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span>' and 'not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anybody</span>'.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Nothing</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> = 'not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anything</span>'.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'Not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span>' is not the same as 'not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span>'. For example:</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I went to the seminar but I did<u>n't</u> speak to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span>. [I spoke to some people but not all.]</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I went to the seminar but I did<u>n't</u> speak to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span>.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> </span>[I spoke to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">no one</span>.]</span></b></p> <p> </p></html> ========== <html><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>You can ask <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span> in this team for help - they're all experts. [it doesn't matter who.]</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Can you get me a cold drink from the canteen? <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Anything</span> will do. [it doesn't matter what.]</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I don't mind where we go tonight. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Anywhere</span> will be better than staying at home. [it doesn't matter where.] </span></b> </p> <p> </p></html> ====='Everyone' or 'every one'?===== <html><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We only use <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span> to talk about people and '<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">every</span> one' to talk about people <u>or</u> things. '<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">Every</span> one' is different because there is more emphasis on <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">each</span> or <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">every</span> individual person or thing in a group, whereas <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone </span>is more general and refers to a group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Everyone</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> who organised the conference did a great job. [the group]<span style="color: fuchsia;"></span></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: fuchsia; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We need to thank <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">every</span> one of them. [each individual]<span style="color: fuchsia;"></span></span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I made hundreds of sandwiches but the delegates managed to eat <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">every</span> one.</span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: fuchsia; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>. </span></b></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: fuchsia; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b> </p><br></html> ====='No one', etc. or 'not anyone', etc.===== <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>These have the same meaning but 'not' +<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> anyone</span>, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anybody</span>, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anything</span> and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anywhere</span> are more commonly used. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">No one</span>,<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> nobody</span>,<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> nothing </span>and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nowhere</span> are considered more emphatic:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 1.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"><td width="308" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Neutral</span></b></p></td><td width="308" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Emphatic</span></b></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>There isn't <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anything</span> I can do to help. </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I don't know <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span> in that company.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I haven't been <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anywhere</span> interesting recently.</span></b></p></td><td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>There's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nothing</span> I can do to help.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I know <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">no one </span>in that company. </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I've been <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nowhere</span> interesting recently.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p></html> =====With 'they' and 'them'===== <html><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Although the pronouns take singular verbs, we sometimes use 'they', 'them', 'their' and 'theirs' rather than 'he', 'she', 'him', 'her', 'his', and 'hers' with those relating to people. For example: </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Someone</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> gave me <u>their</u> ticket so I can go to the concert.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>If <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span> understands this, can <u>they</u> explain it to me, please?</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Everyone </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>needs to understand <u>their</u> responsibilities.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>No one </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>has finished writing <u>theirs</u> yet. </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We often do this when we don't want to specify a gender. It is much better than using 'he or she' or 's/he', for example.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b><br></p></html> =====Negative subjects===== <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'Not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span>' etc. isn't usually used at the beginning of a sentence or <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">clause</span>: </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(227, 108, 10); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Not anyone has to work at weekends. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img height="20" id="40" style="width: 15px; height: 15px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Not anything was provided. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img height="20" id="40" style="width: 15px; height: 15px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We looked for a hotel but not anywhere in the city was suitable. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img height="20" id="40" style="width: 15px; height: 15px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Instead, we use <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">no one </span>or <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nothing </span>or <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nowhere</span>:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>No one </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>has to work at weekends.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Nothing</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> was provided.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We looked for a hotel but <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nowhere </span>in the city was suitable.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b> </p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>However, we can use 'not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span>'.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span> is happy about the new rules.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I tried to explain that not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everything</span> about this job is easy. </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="color: red;"></span></span></b><br></p></html> =====Negative sentences===== <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The pronouns beginning with 'any'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> </span>can be used in affirmative sentences which include a word with a negative or restrictive meaning:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We <u>rarely</u> invite <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span> here in the winter - the roads are too dangerous.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It's <u>unlikely</u> that we'll receive <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anything </span>before the end of the week.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We <u>failed</u> to find <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anywhere</span> that was suitable for the conference.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We also use it in clauses beginning with 'before':<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Let's deal with it now <u>before</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone </span>complains.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Before</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> buying <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anything</span> for the new office, we should decide exactly what we need.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b> </p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><br></span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We do not usually use <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">someone </span>etc. in negative sentences:</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I don't know someone there. </span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-US"><img height="20" id="40" style="width: 15px; height: 15px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"> </span></span></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I don't know <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span> there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 20px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I know <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">no one</span> there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span lang="EN-GB"><img height="22" id="39" style="width: 20px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>However, it is possible if, for example, the person is unknown or we avoid naming the person or we are being ironic: <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Someone</span> didn't remember to lock the door last night.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Or with 'something': </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Something</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> isn't right here. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I didn't do <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">something</span> wrong.</span></b></p><p><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><br></span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br></p></html> =====Intensifiers===== <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We use intensifiers to give extra information. Here are some examples: </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(83, 129, 53); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;'> </span></b></p><table width="645" class="MsoTableLightListAccent1" style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; width: 483.75pt; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 1.0pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: -1; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"><td width="149" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 5;"><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></p></td><td width="161" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 120.4pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>No one, nothing, nowhere</span></b></p></td><td width="165" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 123.95pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Anyone, anything, anywhere</span></b></p></td><td width="170" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.65pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Everyone, everything, everywhere</span></b></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td width="149" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'almost', 'virtually'</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>With <u>any</u>one etc., The meaning is 'it doesn't matter who/which/where'</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td><td width="161" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 120.4pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I saw <u>almost</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">no one</span> I know.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>There's <u>virtually</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nothing</span> in this report that's useful.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>There's <u>almost</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nowhere</span> I wouldn't go for a holiday.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td><td width="165" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 123.95pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She enjoys talking to <u>virtually</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span>.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I don't mind where we eat - I'll be happy <u>almost</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anywhere</span>.</span></b></p></td><td width="170" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.65pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I told <u>virtually</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span>.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We ate <u>almost</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everything</span>.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I've got contacts <u>virtually</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everywhere</span> in Eastern Europe.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td width="149" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'nearly'</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The same meaning as above</span></b></p></td><td width="161" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 120.4pt; background-color: transparent;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes;'> </span></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-US"><img height="20" id="40" style="width: 15px; height: 15px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td><td width="165" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-image: none; width: 123.95pt; background-color: transparent;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes;'> </span></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-US"><img height="20" id="40" style="width: 15px; height: 15px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td><td width="170" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.65pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br></span></span></u></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Nearly</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everyone</span> replied to the invitation.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I looked <u>nearly</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everywhere</span> for my keys.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td width="149" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'hardly'</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>To talk about very small quantities and amounts. The meaning is similar to 'almost <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">none</span>' or very <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">few</span>/<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">little</span>'</span></b></p></td><td width="161" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 120.4pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes;'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-US"><img height="20" id="40" style="width: 15px; height: 15px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td><td width="165" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 123.95pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br></span></span></u></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Hardly</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone</span> I know speaks fluent French.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It's so boring in this town - there's <u>hardly</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anything</span> to do in the evenings.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><br></span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td><td width="170" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.65pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes;'> </span></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-US"><img height="20" id="40" style="width: 15px; height: 15px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td width="149" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>'absolutely'</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>To be emphatic</span></b></p></td><td width="161" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 120.4pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I knew <u>absolutely</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">no one </span>at the seminar.</span></b></p></td><td width="165" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 123.95pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I'm so hungry; I could eat <u>absolutely</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anything</span> right now.</span></b></p></td><td width="170" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.55pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I looked</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>absolutely </span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>everywhere </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>for my keys but couldn't find them.</span></b></p><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b><br></p></html> =====Examples===== <html><p><img height="100" id="450" style="width: 94px; height: 72px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/450_c8483b00ccc774f09d82c2ec0f7dc247.jpg"> <span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><strong>We talked to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">someone </span>who gave us some good advice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></strong></span> <p><img height="99" id="1512" style="width: 98px; height: 78px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1512_e992fe752b2d0e488fd29696070ec533.jpg"> <b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>"Do we have <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everything </span>we need?" </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>"I think so. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Nothing </span>seems to be missing." </span></b></p><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'></span></b> <p><img height="91" id="349" style="width: 103px; height: 72px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/349_73c64d4e1e38c9ac259848c4fa20cadb.png"> <span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><strong>If <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone </span>has any good ideas, this would be a good time to tell me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></strong></span> <p><img height="154" id="1580" style="width: 86px; height: 91px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1580_d6c5fd8ec024e23b156523bf3ee3f0da.jpg"> <span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><strong>I prepared all the food myself, without <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anyone </span>to help. </strong></span></p> <p><img height="174" id="1439" style="width: 88px; height: 110px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1439_6b252d2f73e582b47ab8b5119441c7fc.jpg"> <span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'><strong>Have you seen my keys? I can't find them <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">anywhere</span>.</strong></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'></span> </p><p><img height="127" id="270" style="width: 92px; height: 97px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/270_02802f47d21b326ecc0de66cb4c5cdd5.jpg"> <span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'><strong>Not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">everybody </span>takes a suitcase - some people just have hand luggage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></strong></span> </p><p><img height="92" id="197" style="width: 99px; height: 97px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/197_5ca866ab9833569efa283339a6c7da74.jpg"> <span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'><strong>There's absolutely <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">nowhere</span> I'd rather be right now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></p><p><br></p></html> [[en:grammar:home|{{ :file_-_back_3_.png?150 }}]]