Body/one

Compound pronouns with –BODY have a generalized meaning; they are never used with an of-phrase.

Compound pronouns with –ONE have a more definite, concrete meaning; they may be used with an of-phrase.

Exercise 33. Translate the following sentences into English, paying special attention to the compounds with –body and –one

1. Кто-нибудь из вас видел этот фильм?

2. Никто из нас не знает этого человека.

3. Кто-то из них узнал меня.

4. Никто из моих соседей не слышал шума.

5. Неудивительно, что его поведение вызвало всеобщее подозрение.

6. Никто из студентов не дал на этот вопрос правильного ответа.

7. Кому-нибудь из вас удалось сфотографировать это животное?

8. Пьеса не понравилась никому из них.

9. Его слова вызвали негодование всех.

10. Никто из нас не захотел ехать на экскурсию в такой холодный дождливый день.

11. Кто-нибудь из вас играет на пианино?

12. Почему этот факт привлек внимание всех?

13. Никто из туристов не знал датского языка.

14. Кто-то из вас должен знать ответ на этот вопрос.

15. У каждого из моих друзей был мобильный телефон, но ни один из них не позвонил.

Exercise 34. Underline the correct or more likely alternative.

1. Harry, there aren’t any real princes in the wizarding world! It’s either a nickname, or a made-up title somebody’s given themselves, or it could be his/her/their actual name, couldn’t it? (J.K. Rowling)

2. ‘Well, sir,’ returned I, ‘I hope you’ll consider that Mrs Heathcliff is accustomed to be looked after and waited on; and that she has been brought up like an only daughter, whom everyone/everybody was ready to serve.’ (E. Bronte)

3. Amazing how quickly someone/somebody else’s problems become yours. (S. Grafton)

4. I must write to someone/somebody, and the only choice left me is you. (E. Bronte)

5. They both shake his/her/their head no. (Terry McMillan)

6. I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, he/she/they could not avoid loving me. (E. Bronte)

7. On the other hand, if Tom did not show him something, Philip might assume Tom was not capable of designing, and might hire someone/somebody else without even considering Tom. (Ken Follett)

8. To keep everybody/everyone from knowing that he, Soames Forsyte, was reduced to having his wife spied on, was the overpowering consideration. (John Galsworthy)

9. ‘Jill don’t want to talk about it. Jill don’t want anyone/somebody to know she got a spic baby.’ (R.B. Parker)

10. And, suddenly conscious that someone/somebody nearly behind him had begun talking about his family, he screwed his face round to see an old bewigged buffer, who spoke as if he were eating his own words. (John Galsworthy)

11. On entering the house, I looked about for some one/somebody to give information of Catherine. (E. Bronte)

12. We were divorced. It was fine for him to see other people. I saw other people too. But this was a somebody/anyone else he’d met. (Robert B. Parker)

13. Everyone/ everybody was silent for a moment. (Robert B. Parker)

14. Not everybody uses his/her/their indicator.

15. Somebody left his/her/their keys. These aren’t yours?

16. Nobody likes to admit that he/she/they entertain very little, or that he/she/they rarely enjoy it when he/she/they do.

17. I enjoyed not having to say anything to anybody/ anyone.

18. I’ve never trusted anyone/anybody in my life. (Jack Higgins)

19. Hannah was totally astonished. She’d expected an old man of eighty-five and instead found someone/somebody full of energy and life, still with some colour in his hair, wearing a black silk shirt and Armani slacks cut in the latest fashion. (Jack Higgins)

20. ‘There’s someone/ somebody waiting to see you.’ ‘Can you ask him/her/them to wait?’