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Somewhere – " Somewhere Over the Rainbow" Nowhere – This student is going nowhere fast.Įverywhere – Spiders are found everywhere on Earth. Something – Something makes me want to dance.Īnything – Anything can happen if you just believe. Universal distributive: each – " From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Whoever (nominative case), whomever (oblique case) – Whoever did this? Give this to whomever you wish. Someone, somebody – Someone/Somebody should fix that.Īnyone, anybody – Anyone/Anybody can see this. No one (also no-one), nobody – No one/Nobody thinks that you are mean.Įveryone, everybody – Everyone/Everybody had a cup of coffee. Pronouns that commonly connote indefiniteness are indicated below, with examples as singular, plural, or singular/plural usage. However, some of them can entail singularity in one context and plurality in another. Most indefinite pronouns correspond to discretely singular or plural usage. Table of English indefinite pronoun usage Thus, all is an indefinite determiner in "all good boys deserve favour" but a pronoun in "all are happy". A pronoun can be thought of as replacing a noun phrase, while a determiner introduces a noun phrase and precedes any adjectives that modify the noun. Indefinite pronouns are associated with indefinite determiners of a similar or identical form (such as every, any, all, some). For instance, English "something" can be used only in affirmative contexts while "anything" is used otherwise. Many languages distinguish forms of indefinites used in affirmative contexts from those used in non-affirmative contexts. They often have related forms across these categories: universal (such as everyone, everything), assertive existential (such as somebody, something), elective existential (such as anyone, anything), and negative (such as nobody, nothing). Indefinite pronouns can represent either count nouns or noncount nouns. Indefinite pronouns are in contrast to definite pronouns. JSTOR ( March 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īn indefinite pronoun is a pronoun which does not have a specific, familiar referent.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Indefinite pronoun" – news

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