Indefinite Pronouns someone anyone everyone Basic English Grammar

want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com hi everybody my name is alicia 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 and 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 simple statement not question in other words when we make 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 request question or an offer question let's take 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 positive statement so not question just statement it's positive here the next example can you send someone to help me can you send someone to help me this is request so specific type of question 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 little bit later for now however let's move on to the difference between anyone and anybody okay so this is 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 few examples of this first don't think anyone is at the office don't think anyone is at the office so here we've used anyone because it's 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 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 don't have now this is not request it's not an offer so shouldn't use someone or somebody 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 why this is why question so again not request not an offer i'm looking to find something new i'm looking for information so should use anyone again just as talked about with someone and somebody 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 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 follow kind of different rule than someone and anyone we use everyone and everybody to refer to all people related to situation or related to group so this could mean class it could mean every person in an office it could mean in city in 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 the 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 class reunion it could be family reunion 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 great time so here everybody shows us everybody in the situation so maybe everybody who attended the event had great time everybody who attended the party had great time this is quite 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 want to end this lesson with quick introduction or 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 syllable is beat of word so for example somebody somebody has three beats some one 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 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 sound preference and little bit of formality difference so hope that this lesson helped you understand the differences between these words little bit as said if you want some more information about the difference between some and any you can search the youtube channel for that video as well of course if you like the video please don't forget to give it thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and check us out at englishclass101.com for 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