ALL, BOTH, HALF
These words can be used in the following ways:
| ALL + |
1
2
3
4a
4b |
-
the
my, your, etc.
this, that
these, those |
Uncountable noun
or
Countable noun in the plural
Uncountable noun
Countable noun in the plural |
Examples
|
| 1. |
All cheese contains protein
All children need affection |
| 2. |
All the people in the room were silent.
Have you eaten all the bread? |
| 3. |
I’ve invited all my friends to the party.
I’ve been waiting all my life for this opportunity. |
| 4a. |
Who’s left all this paper on my desk? |
| 4b. |
Look at all those balloons! |
| BOTH + |
1
2
3
4 |
-
the
my, your, etc.
these, those |
Countable noun in the plural |
Example
|
| 1. |
Both children were born in Italy. |
| 2. |
He has crashed both (of) the cars. |
| 3. |
Both (of) my parents have fair hair. |
| 4 |
You can take both (of) these books back to the library.
See note below |
| HALF + |
1
2
3
4 |
a
the
my, your, etc.
this, that,
these, those |
Uncountable
or
countable noun |
Example
|
| 1. |
I bought half a kilo of apples yesterday. |
| 2. |
You can have half (of) the cake.
She gave me half (of) the apples. |
| 3. |
I’ve already given you half (of) my money.
Half (of) his books were in French. |
| 4 |
Half (of) these snakes are harmless
You can take half (of) this sugar. |
NOTE: All, both, half + OF: ‘OF’ must be added when followed by a pronoun:
All of you; both of us; half of them
It is also quite common to add it in most of the above situations except when there is no article (No.1 in all the tables above.)
half Whos half children those
Uncountable
or
countable apples
noun friends people money
Half party
Ive half All room snakes bread
crashed back must words noun
Countable eaten those
Uncountable etc
this this when half tables etc
these both paper your added your common already these noun
Example
You when cheese You sugar
NOTE take those fair plural
Example
have both need children half born noun half Half take been above except
a
b
the
my HALF
These were these Both All below
HALF life
Compound nouns made with SOME, ANY and NO
| Some + |
-thing |
-body |
-one |
-where |
| Any + |
| No + |
Compound nouns with some- and any- are used in the same way as some and any.
Positive statements:
Examples
- Someone is sleeping in my bed.
- He saw something in the garden.
- I left my glasses somewhere in the house.
Questions:
Examples
- Are you looking for someone? (= I’m sure you are)
- Have you lost something? (= I’m sure you have)
- Is there anything to eat? (real question)
- Did you go anywhere last night?
Negative statements:
Examples
- She didn’t go anywhere last night.
- He doesn’t know anybody here.
NOTICE that there is a difference in emphasis between nothing, nobody etc. and not … anything, not … anybody:
Examples
- I don’t know anything about it. (= neutral, no emphasis)
- I know nothing about it (= more emphatic, maybe defensive)
SOMETHING, SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE
Examples
- I have something to tell you.
- There is something to drink in the fridge.
- He knows somebody in New York
- Susie has somebody staying with her.
- They want to go somewhere hot for their holidays.
- Keith is looking for somewhere to live.
ANYBODY, ANYTHING, ANYWHERE
Examples
- Is there anybody who speaks English here?
- Does anybody have the time?
- Is there anything to eat?
- Have you anything to say?
- He doesn’t have anything to stay tonight.
- I wouldn’t eat anything except at Maxim’s.
NOBODY, NOTHING, NOWHERE
Examples
- There is nobody in the house at the moment
- When I arrived there was nobody to meet me.
- I have learnt nothing since I began the course.
- There is nothing to eat.
- There is nowhere as beautiful as Paris in the Spring.
- Homeless people have nowhere to go at night.
ANY can also be used in positive statements to mean ‘no matter which‘, ‘no matter who‘, ‘no matter what‘:
Examples
- You can borrow any of my books.
- They can choose anything from the menu.
- You may invite anybody to dinner, I don’t mind.
doesnt nouns statements
Examples
There glasses say
drink invite where
Any anything difference speaks tonight
between sure garden
SOME Homeless left Maxims
NOBODY Susie with anybody
Examples
matter anybody house
Questions
Examples
looking NO
Some somebody there about me
doesnt with night
someone something Compound emphasis
emphasis anything lost dont house arrived anything fridge
night
Negative nobody There used there somewhere They except looking nobody have statements learnt nouns holidays
have that since There anybody last anybody anything some used anything NOWHERE
Examples
made There something there choose
Compound some something York
thing NOTHING somewhere anywhere
