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
some more information about the
difference between some and any you can
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