1. Indefinite pronouns.

A photo of a two-storey house in a suburban setting.

Choose a pronoun from the box to complete the sentences below.

For more information about indefinite pronouns see the Grammar Reference.

2. Indefinite pronouns.

Note that adjectives go after pronouns like something, somebody, no one, anything, etc.
Something criminal has happened to Betty.
No one in Edmond saw anything unusual.

Click and drag the words in blue to the correct place in the sentences.

3. Indefinite pronouns.

Nobody says they have seen anything unusual.
NOT: Nobody says he has seen anything unusual.
It's difficult to tell someone that they have failed.
Everybody helped themselves.

Indefinite pronouns are singular, but to refer back to them we use plural pronouns, e.g. they, their, themselves.


Complete these sentences with the correct pronoun.

4. Practice: Indefinite pronouns.

Can you remember the sentences from the previous exercises? Say and record each sentence, including the missing word.

Choose the correct option.

5. Indefinite pronouns.

Use the words in the box to complete the spaces in the article from READING.

6. Negation.

What ONE word completes all these sentences from the article in READING?

There was ___ reply.
There was still ___ reply.
But there was ___ sign of Betty.
There were ___ signs of violence.
Since her disappearence ___ money has been withdrawn.
There's ___ doubt about that.
But there is ___ evidence of a crime.
We have ___ main lines of inquiry.

7. Can you remember?

Put the words in blue in order to complete sentences from the article in READING.

8. Negation: no/not any.

There was no reply. = There wasn't any reply.
We have no main lines of inquiry. = We haven't any main lines of inquiry.

Rewrite these sentences with either any or no. Remember to include punctuation.

9. Negation: no, not, nor, none.

Her handbag appeared to be gone, but not her glasses. Nor her passport. She kept none of these appointments.

Use not to make a word or phrase or clause negative.

I go to the cinema, but not often.
She found her glasses but not her keys.

Use no with a noun to mean "not any".

There are no tickets left.
No buses are running today.

Use nor to follow not or no, especially after a comma or to start a new sentence.

He can't read English, nor write it.
I eat no meat. Nor fish. I am a strict vegetarian.

Use none to mean "not a single one".

I have seen none of his films.
How many of these computers work? None.
None of us have been to France.

Complete these sentences with no, not, nor or none.

For more information about negation see the Grammar Reference.

10. Negation.

Negate the sentences.

For example:

All airplanes are totally safe.
I'm sorry. No airplanes are totally safe.