An Indefinite pronoun indicates uncertain or unknown referent (object, person) or on his property. Such pronouns include: something, someone, anything, anyone, something, somebody, etc. they are Formed from interrogative pronouns with prefixes non-, some - and postfixes something, anything, else. For example, who – Someone, anyone, somebody, someone, where – somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, somewhere; how much – How many, some, any.
So, the indefinite pronouns in the Russian language are divided into:
These include one, some, some, something. The first pair of pronouns indicates fame, referencesto for the speaker and unknown to the hearer. Otherwise, they would not be called as indefinite pronouns. Sentences with them it is possible to make so:
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Also the pronouns of this series are sometimes used to Express introductive functions, i.e. for the introduction at the beginning of the new characters or circumstances. For example:
Something, someone in some cases, can Express the uncertainty for the speaker. This means that they will have the value of pronouns Something. For example:
Indefinite pronoun Something is designed to Express the unknown and reference the speaker:
The pronouns Something can be used not basically your value and the value of Any:
Moreover, Something can perform introductional function:
The Value dereferencing pronouns is determined on the basis of specific semantic features and the contexts where pronouns are used.
Pronoun Any implies that considered one alternative (possibility) on the background of the other. That is, in this case the context means “taken utverditeley”. The background of this kind may occur:
So, consider all this in more detail. In the first case, the indefinite pronoun Any will be used for:
In the second case pronouns are used to Express:
For the third case we give the following examples: everyone will bring someone with you.
Unspecified format is in some contexts can be lowered. Compare the use of indefinite pronouns in indirect questions and conditional clauses:
Indirect question
Conditional offer
In addition to these traditional indefinite pronouns, they also include:
In the beginning, we said that the indefinite pronouns are derived from interrogative with the help of certain prefixes and Postfix. In addition, it is possible to form interrogative and negative pronouns, only with the help of such consoles as Not and Not: where – nowhere, how-did who-no, when-ever, etc.
In addition, negative and indefinite pronouns have one thing in common: their syntactic and morphological characteristics are the same as those from which they are formed, that is, from the question mark.
Allocate an indefinite pronoun with negative polarization. These include: Whatsoever and ending at Any. In other words we can say that they gravitate to the context of negativity. It is possible in some contexts to replace the negative pronouns. For example:
Instead of Any you can use Any. Also, these pronouns can replace the negative Any. Or this example:
It is Worth noting one exception: if the negation is used in the main sentence, the subordinate clause can be used only Whatsoever orOr, and not – a negative pronoun. For example:
There these types of rules of writing these pronouns:
So:
As you can see, the spelling of negative and indefinite pronouns contains fairly simple rules and some exceptions to them. Therefore, if a good understanding of the topic, the problems with the correct spelling and the use of these pronouns should not be. And those who are learning English, the indefinite pronoun should not cause any difficulties because the rules of their use are identical to the rules in the Russian language.
Consider how uses the most common indefinite pronouns. English these include: any, something, someone, somebody, anything, anyone, anybody, etc. thus:
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