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Indefinite Pronoun - English

 INDEFINITE PRONOUN

            These are pronouns that do not refer to specific persons or things, rather they refer to them in general. E.g words that ends with body, thing, one i.e anybody, everybody, nobody, somebody, anything, everything, nothing, something, anyone, everyone, no-one, someone…

Rules:

§  All indefinite pronouns takes singular verb e.g

No-one knows my name.

Everything is ready

 

§  You can add (‘s) to an indefinite pronoun to make it possessive e.g

What I am eating is nobody’s business.

 

§  Indefinite pronouns that ends with ‘body’ are used for animate things (living things) while those that ends with ‘thing’ areused for inanimate things (non-living things).


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PERSONAL PRONOUN

POSSESSIVE PRONOUN


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