Indefinite Pronouns someoneanyoneeveryone Basic English Grammar

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hi everybody my name is Alisha in this

lesson I’m going to talk about the

difference between someone everyone and

anyone and somebody anybody and

everybody let’s get started by looking

at the meanings of these words and how

we use them okay let’s begin with

someone and somebody to begin with you

can remember someone in somebody and

anyone and anybody follow very similar

rules as some and any if you’ve seen the

video on our channel talking about some

and any maybe you remember the rules

that I’m going to explain here you can

check that video for some extra

information about those grammar points

too so let’s start with someone and

somebody we use someone and somebody in

positive statements so a simple

statement not a question in other words

when we make a positive statement we use

someone and somebody in that sentence

structure we also use these two words in

requests and in offers so keep in mind

these are two categories of questions so

a request question or an offer question

let’s take a look at some examples of

this now first of all there’s someone at

the office

so here I’ve chosen someone there’s

someone at the office this is a positive

statement so not a question just a

statement it’s a positive here the next

example can you send someone to help me

can you send someone to help me this is

a request so a specific type of question

a request question can you send someone

to help me the third example sentence is

an offer would you like to talk to

somebody would you like to talk to

somebody so here we have request offer

positive statement we can use someone or

somebody in each of these examples so

I’ve used someone

someone and somebody here but actually

we can change each of these to the other

choice both are fine in each of these

example sentences I’ll talk more about

the difference between one and buddy a

little bit later for now however let’s

move on to the difference between anyone

and anybody okay so this is a key

difference between someone and somebody

anyone and anybody this is used in

negative statements these are used in

negative statements someone in somebody

used in positive statements so this

follows the same rule as some and any

so in negative statements and we use

anyone and anybody in information

questions so that means that not

requests not offers but you’re looking

for some kind of information we use

anyone and anybody in these cases so

let’s look at a few examples of this

first I don’t think anyone is at the

office don’t think anyone is at the

office so here we’ve used any one

because it’s a negative here’s my

negative it’s in the do not so not right

here this is my negative therefore I’ve

used any one here one more example

sentence a question this time has

anybody seen my keys here I’ve used

anybody I’ve used this because this is

an information question I’m looking for

some information I don’t have now this

is not a request it’s not an offer so I

shouldn’t use someone or somebody I need

to use anyone or anybody I’m looking for

information this third example sentence

is the same why hasn’t anyone returned

my calls

here anyone and I’m looking for

information in this case a why this is a

why question so again not a request not

an offer I’m looking to find something

new I’m looking for information so I

should use anyone again just as I talked

about

with someone and somebody I can change

this anyone anybody and anyone to the

other word it’s fine to use the other

word here for example anybody anyone

anybody that’s perfectly fine again I’ll

explain more a little bit later here but

remember anyone and anybody is used in

negative statements someone somebody

used in positive statements this is one

key difference okay but let’s move along

now to everyone and everybody everyone

and everybody this will fall out kind of

a different rule than someone and anyone

we use everyone and everybody to refer

to all people related to a situation or

related to a group so this could mean a

class it could mean every person in an

office that could mean in a city in a

country so it just depends on the group

or the situation we use this word when

we want to talk about all people related

to that group or related to this

situation so let’s look at some examples

okay first one everyone in our class

graduated so here everyone in our class

graduated refers to all the people in

our class so everyone in that group of

people in this case the group is the

class so all people in the class another

example it was great to see everybody at

the Reunion so everybody here shows us

again all people and this could be a

class reunion it could be a family

reunion

a company reunion so this just means it

was great to see all the related people

so the people related to the situation

at this reunion event one more example

then everybody had a great time so here

everybody shows us everybody in the

situation so maybe everybody who

attended the event had a great time

everybody who attended the party had a

great time this is quite a common

expression after an event of some kind

so again as we saw with the first two

groups we can actually change each of

these words to the other word so

everyone can be replaced with everybody

same thing here everybody and everybody

can be replaced with everyone so I want

to end this lesson with a quick

introduction or a quick overview to the

difference between these two endings one

and buddy

what is the difference here really one

the words that end in one someone anyone

and everyone they sound more formal than

the words that end in buddy so we can

actually use these interchangeably

interchangeably means we can mix and

match them we can choose which one we

prefer so that means the meanings are

the same like their purpose is the same

it’s just up to us to choose so why

would we do this why would we choose one

word and not the other word you can

choose according to the syllables if you

remember syllables is the number of

beats a syllable is a beat of a word so

for example somebody somebody has three

beats someone has only two beats two

syllables this is important when you are

writing especially like writing poetry

writing lyrics for music or maybe you’re

trying to write a nice essay for example

we are listening for which words sound

nice to our ears so sometimes the word

somebody sounds nice sometimes the word

someone sounds better so it’s up to us

meaning we can decide we can choose

which word we prefer to use so you just

have to listen and kind of feel which

you prefer there’s no difference in

meaning it’s just a sound preference and

a little bit of a formality difference

so I hope that this lesson helped you

understand the differences between these

words a little bit as I said if you want

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difference between some and any you can

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