Indefinite Pronouns

 INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

 An Indefinite Pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person or thing. The Indefinite Pronouns do not substitute for specific nouns but function themselves as nouns. It conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some.

 The most common Indefinite Pronouns are: all, another, any, anybody, anyon, anything, each, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody, and someone.

Note that some Indefinite Pronouns can also be used as indefinite adjectives.

One of the chief difficulties we have with the Indefinite Pronouns lies in the fact that people think that the words everybody refers to more than one person, but it takes a singular verb.

• Everybody is accounted for.

• Here, is you take the meaning of the word as ‘every single body ‘ , the confusion would disappear. The indefinite pronoun none can be either singular or plural, depending on its context. None is nearly always plural-meaning 'not any'-except when something else in the sentence makes us regard it as a singular-meaning 'not one'.

• None of the food is fresh.

 It can be taken both as singular or plural depending on whether it refers to something countable or uncountable.