Indefinite pronouns

The indefinite pronoun does not refer to any particular person, thing or place. It is vague and "indefinite."

Indefinite pronouns - Indefinite pronouns can refer to both countable and uncountable nouns. They often take similar forms in terms of: universal (e.g. everyone, everything), assertive existential (e.g. someone, something), elective existential (e.g. anyone, anything) and negative (e.g. no one, nothing).

Indefinite pronouns include:

• some i any (somebody, someone, something, somewhere, anybody, anyone, anything, anywhere),

• no i every (nobody, no one, nothing, nowhere, everybody, everyone, everything, everywhere),

• all, one and pronouns you i they

We grammatically treat indefinite pronouns as

3rd person, singular 

Note that double negation does not occur in English:

• She doesn’t want anything.

• She wants nothing.

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-thing – used in relation to things

something	Affirmative and interrogative sentences	Something has to be done.
anything	Question and negative sentences	Do you want anything?
nothing	Negative sentences only	I want nothing.
everything	Affirmative and interrogative sentences	I want everything.

-one/-body – used in relation to persons

someone somebody	Affirmative and interrogative sentences	Someone has done it.
anyone anybody	Question and negative sentences	Was anyone here?
no one  nobody	Negative sentences only	Nobody was here.
everyone  everybody	Affirmative and interrogative sentences	Everyone is here.

-where – used in relation to location

somewhere	Affirmative and interrogative sentences	We want to go somewhere.
anywhere	Question and negative sentences	I don’t want to go anywhere.
nowhere	Negative sentences only	I can go nowhere.
everywhere	Affirmative and interrogative sentences	They were everywhere.

all	The winner takes all.

you they one

are used in an impersonal form, i.e. they do not refer to a specific person, place or phenomenon, but express general truths (or opinions)

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