| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| SINGULAR: | my | your1 | his, her, its |
| PLURAL: | our | your | their |
1 The archaic pronouns of the second person singular are: thy (conjoint), thine (absolute).
Absolute forms of possessive pronouns
| SINGULAR: | mine | his, hers2 | |
| PLURAL: | ours | yours | theirs |
2 No absolute form of the third person neuter pronoun exists.
The conjoint form is used when the possessive pronoun comes before the noun it modifies. The conjoint form of the possessive pronoun is used as an attribute.
In his turn old Jolyon looked back at his son. (Galsworthy)
The absolute form is used when the possessive pronoun does not modify any noun.
The absolute form of the possessive pronoun may be used as subject, predicative or object. The group preposition + absolute form may be used as an attribute.
Yours (sum of money) wont come short of a hundred thousand, my
boy, said old Jolyon. (Galsworthy) (SUBJECT)
When he turned round again he saw Fleur standing near the door holding a
handkerchief which the boy had evidently just handed to her. F.F., he heard
her say. Fleur Forsyte its mine all right. Thank you ever so.
(Galsworthy) (PREDICATIVE)
...he realized that she was making an effort to talk his talk, and he resolved to
get away from it and talk hers. (London) (OBJECT)
...and while she rattled on, he strove to follow her, marveling at all the
knowledge that was stowed away in that pretty head of hers... (London)
(ATTRIBUTE)
3. Possessive pronouns are often used before the names of the parts of the body, clothing, things belonging to a person, etc. In that case they are not translated into Russian.
Young Jolyon rose and held out his hand to help his father up.
, .
The girl dropped her handkerchief and he picked it up. (Galsworthy)
, .
Reflexive pronouns.
1.Reflexive pronouns have the categories of person, number, and gender in the third person singular.
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| SINGULAR: | myself | yourself1 | himself, herself, itself |
| PLURAL: | ourselves | yourselves | themselves |
1 The archaic pronoun of the second person singular is thyself.
2. Reflexive pronouns refer to the subject of the sentence in which they are used, indicating that the action performed by the doer passes back to him or is associated with him.
In the sentence they are usually used as direct objects.
In that moment of emotion he betrayed the Forsyte in him forgot himself,
his interests, his property was capable of almost anything... (Galsworthy)
(OBJECT)
Reflexive pronouns may be used as predicatives.
When she came back she was herself again. (Hardy) (PREDICATIVE)
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Reflexive pronouns preceded by a preposition may be used as indirect prepositional objects, as attributes and as adverbial modifiers.
He could not see that it would be better to make her feel that she was
competing with herself... (Dreiser) (PREPOSITIONAL INDIRECT
OBJECT)
I fancied you looked a little downcast when you came in, she ventured to
observe, anxious to keep away from the subject of herself. (Hardy)
(ATTRIBUTE)
If June did not like this, she could have an allowance and live by herself.
(Galsworthy) (ADVERBIAL MODIFIER OF MANNER)
Reflexive pronouns may be used to form the reflexive voice (in this case reflexive pronouns are structural words):
Undressing again, she washed herself intensively... (Galsworthy)
And then I dressed myself and came away to find you. (Hardy)
Sometimes reflexive pronouns are used emphatically:
Moreover, Soames himself disliked the thought of that. (Galsworthy)
She was never idle, it seemed to him, and he envied her now that he himself
was idle nearly all his time. (Galsworthy)
Reciprocal pronouns.
1. Reciprocal pronouns are the group-pronouns each other and one another. They express mutual action or relation. The subject to which they refer must always be in the plural.
I didnt really know him, he thought, and he didnt know me; but we loved
each other. (Galsworthy)
We havent set eyes on one another for years. (Priestley)
Each other generally implies only two, one another two or more than two persons:
He had never heard his father or his mother speak in an angry voice, either to
each other, himself, or anybody else. (Galsworthy)
Seated in a row close to one another were three ladies Aunts Ann, Hester
(the two Forsyte maids), and Julie (short for Julia)... (Galsworthy)
It must be mentioned that this distinction is not always strictly observed:
I should have been surprised if those two could have thought very highly of
one another. (Dickens)
2. Reciprocal pronouns have two case forms.
Girls banged into each other and stamped on each others feet. (Mansfield)
The common case of reciprocal pronouns is used as an object.
The men were not grave and dignified. They lost their tempers easily and
called one another names... (London)
Elizabeth and George talked and found each other delightful. (Aldington)
The genitive case of reciprocal pronouns may be used as an attribute.
At first it struck me that I might live by selling my works to the ten per cent
who were like myself; but a moments reflection showed me that these must
all be as penniless as I, and that we could not live by, so to speak, taking in
one anothers washing. (Shaw)
Not until moon and stars faded away and streaks of daylight began to appear,
did Meitje Brinker and Hans look hopelessly into each others face. (Dodge)
Reciprocal pronouns preceded by a preposition are used as a prepositional indirect object:
They look at one another for a moment. (Dickens)
...in silence they stared at each other. (Saxton)
Demonstrative pronouns.
1.The demonstrative pronouns are this, that, such, (the) same.
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The demonstrative pronouns this and that have two numbers: this these; that those.
This is used to point at what is nearer in time or space; that points at what is farther away in time or space.
He looked him over critically. Yes, this boy might do, he thought. (Dreiser)
I like that fellow, Henry Waterman confided to his brother the moment
Frank had gone with instructions to report the following morning. (Dreiser)
This and that may be applied both to persons and things.
And this girl was French, not likely to lose her head, or accept any
unlegalized position. (Galsworthy)
Other people were anxious to get this soap at this price. (Dreiser)
What do you think of that Belgian fellow, Profond? (Galsworthy)
To Forsyte imagination that house was now a sort of Chinese pill-box...
(Galsworthy)
The pronoun such.
She wore a red ribbon in her hair, and was the only one of the white company
who could boast of such a pronounced adornment. (Hardy)
The pronoun same is always used with the definite article.
The driver was a young man... wearing a dandy cap, drab jacket, breeches of
the same hue. (Hardy)
2.The demonstrative pronouns this and that are used as subjects, predicatives, objects, and attributes.
Its all right, but Id rather try my hand at brokerage, I think that appeals to
me. (Dreiser) (SUBJECT)
The only honest people if they existed were those who said: This is
foul brutality... (Aldington) (PREDICATIVE)
Tell me just how you did this. (Dreiser) (OBJECT)
If that young fellow wanted a place, Id give it to him, he thought.
(Dreiser) (ATTRIBUTE)
The demonstrative pronoun that (those) may be used as a word-substitute:
But in thinking of his remaining guest, an expression like that of a cat who is
just going to purr stole over his (Swithins) old face. (Galsworthy)
The features (of young Jolyon) were certainly those of a Forsyte, but the
expression was more the introspective look of a student or philosopher.
(Galsworthy)
The pronoun such is used as subject, predicative, object, and attribute:
If any living man can manage this horse I can I wont say any living man
can do it but if such has the power, I am here. (Hardy) (SUBJECT)
Her idolatry of this man was such that she herself almost feared it to be ill-
omened. (Hardy) (PREDICATIVE)
But such thoughts and visions did not prevent him from following Professor
Caldwell closely. (London) (ATTRIBUTE)
The pronoun (the) same usually performs the function of an attribute, but it may be used as subject, predicative, object:
We were in the same classes. (London) (ATTRIBUTE)
It is to be feared the same could not be said of you, were you to be called
hence. (Ch. Bronte) (SUBJECT)
Martins Sunday was the same as before. (London) (PREDICATIVE)
May this young man do the same! said Angel fervently. (Hardy) (OBJECT)
Interrogative pronouns.
1. Interrogative pronouns are used in inquiry, to form special questions. They are: who, whose, what, which.
The interrogative pronoun who has the category of case: the nominative case is who, the objective case whom.
Who refers to human beings:
Slipping her hand under his arm, she said: Who was that? He picked up
my handkerchief. We talked about pictures. (Galsworthy)
What when not attributive usually refers to things but it may be applied to persons when one inquires about their occupation.
What are you looking for, Tess? the doctor called. Hairpins, she replied...
(London)
What was he? A painter. (Galsworthy)
Which has a selective meaning: it corresponds to the Russian (an individual of the group). It may refer to persons and things.
The boys clasped each other suddenly in an agony of fright. Which of us
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does he mean? gasped Huckleberry. (Twain)
Which side of the bed do you like, Mum? (Galsworthy)
The questions Who is he? What is he? Which is he? differ in their meaning. The first question inquires about the name or parentage of some person. The second question inquires about the occupation of the person spoken about. The third question inquires about some particular person out of a definite group of persons.
2. In the sentence interrogative pronouns may have different functions those of subject, predicative, object, and attribute:
Who, do you think, has been to see you, Dad? She couldnt wait! Guess.
(Galsworthy) (SUBJECT)
What s been happening, then? he said sharply. (Eliot) (SUBJECT)
No, who s he? Oh, hes a Polish Jew. (Aldington) (PREDICATIVE)
What are you, Mr. Mont, if I may ask? I, sir? I was going to be a painter.
(Galsworthy) (PREDICATIVE)
What was her father? Heron was his name, a Professor, so they tell me.
(Galsworthy) (PREDICATIVE)
He says hes married, said Winifred. Whom to, for goodness sake?
(Galsworthy) (OBJECT)
Who do you mean? I said. (Dn Maurier) (OBJECT)1
1 There is a tendency in Modern English to use who, instead of whom, as an object:
Z. If it doesnt matter who anybody marries, then it doesnt matter who I
marry and it doesnt matter who you marry.
A. Whom, not who.
Z. Oh, speak English: youre not on the telephone now. (Shaw)
What did you see in Clensofantrim? Nothing but beauty, darling.
(Galsworthy) (OBJECT)
What sort of a quarrel? he heard Fleur say. (Galsworthy) (ATTRIBUTE)
Whose pain can have been like mine? Whose injury is like mine? (Eliot)
(ATTRIBUTE)
Which day is it that Dorloote Mill is to be sold? (Eliot) (ATTRIBUTE)
Relative pronouns.
1.Relative pronouns (who, whose, which, that, as) not only point back to a noun or a pronoun mentioned before but also have conjunctive power. They introduce attributive clauses. The word they refer to is called their antecedent. It may be a noun or a pronoun.
Who is used in reference to human beings or animals.
Jolyon bit his lips; he who had always hated rows almost welcomed the
thought of one now. (Galsworthy)
...in his voice was a strange note of fear that frightened the animal, who had
never known the man speak in such way before. (London)
Whose is mainly used in reference to human beings or animals butit may be applied to things.
Then there was the proud Rychie Korbes, whose father, Mynheer van Korbes,
was one of the leading men of Amsterdam. (Dodge)
Again he (Soames) looked at her (Irene), huddled like a bird that is shot and
dying, whose poor breast you see panting as the air is taken from it, whose
poor eyes look at you who have shot it, with a slow, soft, unseeing look...
(Galsworthy)
...he (superintendent) wore a stiff standing-collar whose upper edge almost
reached his ears, and whose sharp points curved forward abreast the corners
of his mouth... (Twain)
Which is used in reference to things and animals.
Here was her own style a bed which did not look like one and many
mirrors. (Galsworthy)
They strove to steal a dog the fattest, which was very thin but I shoved
my pistol in their faces and told them begone. (London)
That is mainly used in reference to animals and things. It may also be used in reference to human beings.
This... gave him much the same feeling a man has when a dog that he owns
wriggles and looks at him. (Galsworthy)
On one side was a low wall that separated it from the street. (London)
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In the factory quarter, doors were opening everywhere, and he was soon one
of a multitude that pressed onward through the dark. (London)
As usually introduces attributive clauses when the demonstrative pronoun such is used in the principal clause (it is a rare case whenas is used without such in the principal clause).
As may refer to living beings and things.
...perhaps the books were right and there were many such as she (Ruth) in the
upper walks of life. (London)
His mother was a poor peasant woman, too poor even to think of such a thing
as buying skates for her little ones. (Dodge)
For nobodys ever heard me say as it wasnt lucky for my children to have
aunts and uncles as can live independent. (Eliot)
...I went into Snow Park. It wasnt as one expects a municipal park to be...
(Braine)
2. Relative pronouns can also refer to a clause (see Chapter XVII, The Complex Sentence, 8).
Relative pronouns always perform some syntactical function in the clause they introduce.
Gemma, theres a man downstairs who wants to see you. (Vovnich)
(SUBJECT)
She flashed a look at him that was more anger than appeal. (London)
(SUBJECT)
...then discussion assumed that random volubility which softens a decision
already forced on one. (Galsworthy) (SUBJECT)
I think I have taken nothing that you or your people have given me.
(Galsworthy) (OBJECT)
Families often think it due to themselves to turn their back on newcomers,
whom they may not think quite enough for them. (Shaw) (OBJECT)
It pleased Denny to exert the full force of his irony upon the work which they
were doing. (Cronin) (OBJECT)
Conjunctive pronouns.
1. Conjunctive pronouns (who, what, whose, which) not only point back to some person or thing mentioned before but also have conjunctive power, introducing subordinate clauses (subject clauses, object clauses, predicative clauses).1
1 See Chapter XVII, The Complex Sentence.
What June had taken for personal interest was only the impersonal excitement
of every Forsyte... (Galsworthy) (SUBJECT CLAUSE)
What you want, in fact, is a first-rate man for a fourth-rate fee, and thats
exactly what youve got! (Galsworthy) (PREDICATIVE CLAUSE)
I dont want to hear what youve come for. (Galsworthy) (OBJECT
CLAUSE)
2. In the clause they introduce they perform different functions, those of subject, predicative, attribute, object.
What had made her yield he could never make out; and from Mrs. Heron, a
woman of some diplomatic talent, he learnt nothing. (Galsworthy)
(SUBJECT)
Erik realized with a sinking sensation that Haviland didnt know who he was.
(Wilson) (PREDICATIVE)
Ive spent a lot of time in the chart-room now, and Im on the edge of
knowing my way about, what charts I want to refer to, what coasts I want to
explore. (London) (ATTRIBUTE)
What Savina could no longer do for him, he did himself, and brutally brushed
aside all other interests except her. (Wilson) (OBJECT)
Defining pronouns.
The defining pronouns are: all, each, every, everybody, everyone, everything, either, both, other, another.
1. All is a generalizing pronoun, it takes a group of things or persons as a whole.
All may be used as subject, predicative, object, and attribute.
...when all is said and done... (London) (SUBJECT)
He just loved me, that is all. (London) (PREDICATIVE)
And Martin forgot all about it. (London) (OBJECT)
...if all the doors are closed... (London) (ATTRIBUTE)
2. Both points out two persons, things or notions mentioned before.
But there is more to be said, he continued, after a pause painful to both.
(London)
You can study French, or you can study German, or cut them both out and
study Esperanto... (London)
The pronoun both may be used as subject, object, and attribute.
Both seemed to implore something to shelter them from reality. (Hardy)
(SUBJECT)
The light, admitted by windows at both ends, was unfortunately not Chinese.
(Galsworthy) (ATTRIBUTE)
When preceded by a preposition both may be used as a prepositional indirect object.
He invariably paid the way for both, and it was through him that Martin
learned the refinement of food. (London)
3. Each, every, everybody, everyone, everything.
Each and every refer to all the members of the group of persons, things, or notions mentioned before and taken one by one. When used as subject, each etc. require a verb in the singular.
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Each may be used as subject, object, and attribute.
The train coming in a minute later, the two brothers parted and entered their
respective compartments. Each felt aggrieved that the other had not modified
his habits to secure his society a little longer. (Galsworthy) (SUBJECT)
He paid a dollar each. (London) (OBJECT)
It (a blackbird) started singing as I looked out of the window, ending each
phrase abruptly as if jout of breath, a curiously amateur effect. (Braine)
(ATTRIBUTE)
When preceded by a preposition each may be used as a prepositional indirect object:
They began to deal swiftly with the cocoa tins, slipping a stick of dynamite in
each. (Cronin)
Every is used only as an attribute:
This is something more than genius. It is true, every line of it. (London)
Everybody, everyone refer to all the members of the group of persons mentioned before or taken one by one.
The pronouns everybody, everyone have two cases: the common case and the genitive case.
The common case may be used as subject and object.
You walked into the waiting-room, into a great buzz of conversation, and
there was everybody; you knew almost everybody. (Mansfield) (SUBJECT,
OBJECT)
The genitive case of the pronouns everyone and everybody is used as an attribute.
...he almost forgot the nearly intolerable discomfort of his new clothes in the
entirely intolerable discomfort of being set up as a target for everybody s
gaze and everybody s laudations. (Twain)
When preceded by a preposition everyone and everybody may be used as a prepositional indirect object.
How know? And without knowing how give such pain to everyone?
(Galsworthy)
Everything may be applied to things, animals and abstract notions. In the sentence it is used as subject, predicative, and object.
No one will see us. Pull down that veil and everything will be all right.
(London) (SUBJECT)
Of course, class is everything, really. (Galsworthy) (PREDICATIVE)
He was not long in assuming that Brissenden knew everything. (London)
(OBJECT)
4. Either has two meanings: (a) each of the two, (b) one or the other.
The trail wasnt three feet wide on the crest, and on either side the ridge fell
away in precipices hundreds of feet deep. (London)
Then he remembered the underwriters and the owners, the two masters a
captain must serve, either of which could and would break him and whose
interests were diametrically opposed. (London)
In the sentence either is usually used as attribute or part of the subject (see the above examples).
5. Other, another. Other denotes some object different from the one mentioned before.
Other has two numbers: singular other; plural others. It has two cases: the common case and the genitive case (others, others).
He walked at the others heels with a swing to his shoulders and his legs
spread unwittingly... (London)
In the sentence it is used as subject, object, and attribute.
After tea the others went off to bathe... (Mansfield) (SUBJECT)
When he brought his suitcase down into the hall, Isabel left the others and
went over to him. (Mansfield) (OBJECT)
But the circumstance was sufficient to lead him to select Tess in preference to
the other pretty milkmaids. (Hardy) (ATTRIBUTE)
When preceded by a preposition it may be used as a prepositional indirect object:
You are not fair to the others. (Voynich)
Another has two meanings: (1) a different one, (2) an additional one.
He has learnt sheep-farming at another place, and hes now mastering dairy
work. (Hardy)
Yes, thought Soames, another year of London and that sort of life, and shell
be spoiled. (Galsworthy)
Another may be used as subject, object, and attribute.
The lantern hanging at her wagon had gone out but another was shining in
her face much brighter than her own had been. (Hardy) (SUBJECT)
Often among the women he met, he would see now one, now another,
looking at him, appraising him, selecting him. (London) (OBJECT)
Now I wont say another word. I am overwhelmed, crushed. (London)
(ATTRIBUTE)
Indefinite pronouns.
Indefinite pronouns point out some person or thing indefinitely. The indefinite pronouns are some, any, somebody, anybody, someone, anyone, something, anything, one.
The pronouns somebody, anybody, someone, anyone, one have two cases: the common case and the genitive case.
1. Some is chiefly used in affirmative sentences while any is used in negative and interrogative sentences and. in conditional clauses.
We spread down some wide blankets. (O. Henry)
But his chief trouble was that he did not know any editors or writers.
(London)
Do you see any sign of his appreciating beauty? (Galsworthy)
If you have any new books, show them to me please.
When used with nouns of material some and any have the meaning of indefinite quantity.
Now run along and get some candy, and dont forget to give some to your brothers and sisters. (London)
Some, not any, is used in special and general questions expressing some request or proposal.
Do you want some water? No, I dont want any water. (Maltz)
Some may have the meaning of certain () before a noun in the plural.
You have some queer customers. Do you like this life? (Galsworthy)
Any may be used in affirmative sentences with the meaning of every ().
Above a square-domed forehead he saw a mop of brown hair... nut-brown,
with a wave to it and hints of curls that were a delight to any woman...
(London)
Somebody, someone, something are chiefly used in affirmative sentences.
He wanted someone young, you know a dark Spanish type... (Mansfield)
I want to say something. (Galsworthy)
Anybody, anyone, anything are used in negative and interrogative sentences and in conditional clauses.
I dont want anything. (Voynich)
Is there anything between him and Annette? (Galsworthy)
If anyone had asked him if he wanted to own her soul, the question would
have seemed to him both ridiculous and sentimental. (Galsworthy)
If Erik was ever to do anything of importance he would have to find a third
way. (Wilson)
Somebody, someone, something are used in special and general questions if they express some request or proposal.
Will someone help me?
Anyone, anybody, anything may be used in affirmative sentences. Anyone, anybody are used with the meaning of everyone (); anything is used with the meaning of everything ( ).
Youve no business to say such a thing! she exclaimed. Why not?
Anybody can see it. (Galsworthy)
There is a limit to what anyone can bear. (Voynich)
... she sank in spirit inwardly and fluttered feebly at the heart as she thought of
entering anyone of these mighty concerns and asking for something to do
something that she could do anything. (Dreiser)
2. The indefinite pronouns some and any may be used as subject, object and attribute.
Some say the world will end in fire.
Some say in ice. (Frost) (SUBJECT)
I watch the fire and the boiling and the roasting When there is any,
says Mr. George, with great expression. (Dickens) (SUBJECT)
...and his attention slid at once from such finality to the dust motes in the
bluish sunlight coming in. Thrusting his hand up he tried to catch some.
(Galsworthy) (OBJECT)
Where is his home? He didnt have any. (Maltz) (OBJECT)
Are there any real Indians in the woods? (0. Henry) (ATTRIBUTE)
Someone, anyone, somebody, anybody, something, anything may be used as subject, predicative, or object. When used as a subject they require a verb in the singular.
In the next house someone was playing over and over again La donna è
mobile on an untuned piano. (Galsworthy) (SUBJECT)
...What he likes is anything except art. (Aldington) (PREDICATIVE)
And not merely did he not know any writers, but he did not know anybody
who had ever attempted to write. (London) (OBJECT)
The genitive case of the pronouns somebody, someone! anybody, anyone is used as an attribute:
...he could pull his cap down over his eyes and screen himself behind
someones shoulder. (London)
Its anybodys right, Martin heard somebody saying. (London)
...I looked up; I was in somebodys arms. (Shaw)
When preceded by a preposition the pronouns somebody, someone, something, anybody, anyone, anything may be used as prepositional indirect objects.
The girl doesnt belong to anybody is no use to anybody but me. (Shaw)
Such a purse had never been carried by any one attentive to her. (Dreiser)
So, though he wasnt very successful at anything, he got along all right.
(Aldington)
3. The indefinite-personal pronoun one is often used in the sense of any person or every person.
New York presents so many temptations for one to run into extravagance. (O.
Henry)
The indefinite pronoun one is often used in a general sense.
...Only one with constitution of iron could have held himself down, as Martin
did. (London)
The pronoun one may be used in the genitive case:
I know exactly what it feels like to be held down on ones back. (Galsworthy)
One may be used as a word-substitute:
I was looking at them, and also at intervals examining the teachers none of
whom precisely pleased me; for the stout one was a little coarse, the dark one
not a little fierce. (Ch. Bronte)
As a word-substitute one may be used in the plural:
Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables; the younger ones, together
with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard room. (Ch.
Bronte)
Negative pronouns.
Most of the indefinite pronouns correspond to negative pronouns: some no, none; something nothing, none; somebody, someone nobody, no one, none.
Some defining pronouns also correspond to negative pronouns: everything nothing; all, everybody, every, each no, none, nobody; both, either neither.
1. The negative pronoun no is used only before a noun as its attribute.
No dreams were possible in Dufton, where the snow seemed to turn black
almost before it hit the ground. (Braine)
No Forsyte can stand it for a minute. (Galsworthy)
The negative pronoun none may be applied both to human beings and things.
None of us none of us can hold on for ever! (Galsworthy)
... he took the letters from the gilt wire cage into which they had been thrust
through the slit in the door. None from Irene. (Galsworthy)
It can be used as subject or object.
In this he would make little fires, and cook the birds he had not shot with his
gun, hunting in the coppice and fields, or the fish he did not catch in the pond
because there were none. (Galsworthy) (SUBJECT)
...besides, it required woods and animals, of which he had none in his nursery
except his two cats... (Galsworthy) (OBJECT)
2. The negative pronouns nobody, no one refer to human beings. They correspond to the indefinite pronouns somebody, someone and to the defining pronouns all, every, each, everybody.
The negative pronoun nobody may be used in the genitive case: nobodys.
The negative pronouns nobody and no one are mostly used as subjects and objects.
Nobody seemed to know him well. (Galsworthy) (SUBJECT)
He remembered the days of his desperate starvation when no one invited him
to dinner. (London) (SUBJECT)
I told you once that I have no one in the world but you. (Voynich) (OBJECT)
Wed have nobody to fight the war. (Heym) (OBJECT)
The pronoun nobody in the genitive case is used as an attribute.
Now Mr. Pullet never rode anything taller than a low pony, and was the least
predatory of men, considering fire-arms dangerous, as apt to go off
themselves by nobodys particular desire. (Eliot)
The pronouns nobody, no one preceded by a preposition are used as prepositional indirect objects.
Among all the crowd who came and went here, there and everywhere, she
cared for nobody. (Galsworthy)
3. The negative pronoun nothing refers to things. It is opposite to the indefinite pronoun something and to the defining pronoun everything.
And nothing of vital importance had happened after that till the year turned.
(Galsworthy)
Nothing may be used as subject, predicative, or object.
There is nothing to worry about. (Galsworthy) (SUBJECT)
Now, look here, Marian, this is nothing but nonsense, Martin began.
(London) (PREDICATIVE)
...she brought nothing with her but the feeling of adventure. (Galsworthy)
(OBJECT)
When preceded by a preposition nothing may be used as a prepositional indirect object:
On that train he thought of nothing but Lilly. (Wilson)
The negative pronoun neither is opposite to the defining pronouns either, both.
Neither of them answered; but their faces seemed to him as if contemptuous.
(Galsworthy)
In the sentence it may be used as subject, object, and attribute.
Neither was wise enough to be sure of the working of the mind of the other.
(Dreiser) (SUBJECT)
I like neither of them. (OBJECT)
We approved neither plan. (ATTRIBUTE)
The negative pronouns nobody, no one, nothing are singular in meaning and when they are used as the subject of the sentence they require a verb in the singular (see the above examples).
Chapter V
THE NUMERAL
1. The numeral is a part of speech which indicates number orthe order of persons and things in a series.
Accordingly numerals are divided into cardinals (cardinal numerals) and ordinals (ordinal numerals).
Cardinal numerals.
Cardinal numerals indicate exact number, they are used in counting. As to their structure, the cardinal numerals from 1 to 12 and 100, 1000, 1,000,000 are simple words (one, two, three, etc., hundred, thousand, million); those from 13 to 19 are derivatives with the suffix ‑teen (thirteen, fourteen, etc.); the cardinal numerals indicating tens are formed by means of the suffix ‑ty (twenty, thirty, etc.). The numerals from 21 to 29, from 31 to 39, etc. are composite: twenty-two, thirty-five, etc.
N o t e 1. Twenty-two, thirty-five, etc. are spelt with a hyphen.
N o t e 2. In two hundred and twenty-three, four hundred and sixteen etc.
there must be the word and after the word hundred.
Such cardinal numerals as hundred, thousand, million may be used with articles (a hundred, a thousand, a million); they may be substantivized and used in the plural (hundreds, thousands, millions). When used after other numerals they do not take ‑s (two hundred times, thirty thousand years etc.). The word million may be used with or without ‑s (two million, two millions). When the word million is followed by some other cardinal numeral only the first variant is possible: two million five hundred inhabitants.
