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INDEFINITE PRONOUNS


[Sidenote: _Definition and examples._]


136. Indefinite pronouns are words which stand for an indefinite

number or quantity of persons or things; but, unlike adjective

pronouns, they are never used as adjectives.


Most of them are compounds of two or more words:--


[Sidenote: _List._]


_Somebody_, _some one_, _something_; _anybody_, _any one_ (or

_anyone_), _anything_; _everybody_, _every one_ (or _everyone_),

_everything_; _nobody_, _no one_, _nothing_; _somebody else_, _anyone

else_, _everybody else_, _every one else_, etc.; also _aught_,

_naught_; and _somewhat_, _what_, and _they_.


The following sentences contain indefinite pronouns:--


As he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit _everybody's_ fancy.


_Every one_ knows how laborious the usual method is of attaining

to arts and sciences.


_Nothing_ sheds more honor on our early history than the

impression which these measures everywhere produced in America.


Let us also perform _something_ worthy to be remembered.


William of Orange was more than _anything else_ a religious man.


Frederick was discerned to be a purchaser of _everything_ that

_nobody else_ would buy.


These other souls draw me as _nothing else_ can.


The genius that created it now creates _somewhat else_.


_Every one else_ stood still at his post.


That is perfectly true: I did not want _anybody else's_ authority

to write as I did.


_They_ indefinite means people in general; as,--


At lovers' perjuries, _they_ say, Jove laughs.--SHAKESPEARE.


_What_ indefinite is used in the expression "I tell you _what_." It

means _something_, and was indefinite in Old English.


Now, in building of chaises, I tell you _what_,

There is always somewhere a weakest spot.



Exercise


Find sentences with six indefinite pronouns.



137. Some indefinite pronouns are inflected for case, as shown in

the words _everybody's_, _anybody else's_, etc.


See also "Syntax" (Sec. 426) as to the possessive case of the forms

with _else_.








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