Any, no, none Flashcards
No + noun
We use no + noun in sentences with a positive verb
any + noun
we use any + noun in negatives and questions.
No= not ___ or not ___
No= not a or not any
I have ___ friends.
I have no friends.
I don’t have ___ friends.
I don’t have any friends.
Do you have ___friends?
Do you have any friends?
Any without noun
We can also use any as a pronoun, i.e. not followed by a noun.
‘Is there ___ milk left?’ ‘No, there isn’t ___.’
‘Is there any milk left?’ ‘No, there isn’t any.’
Any in affirmative sentences
We can also use any in affirmative sentences when it means ‘one or some, but it is not important which’.
You can come ___ weekend. (=One weekend; it doesn’t matter which)
You can come any weekend. (=One weekend; it doesn’t matter which)
___ idiot would know how to use this phone.
Any idiot would know how to use this phone.
None
We use none as a pronoun, i.e. not followed by a noun. We use none to replace countable or uncountable nouns.
How many friends do you have?’ ___
How many friends do you have?’ ‘None
I thought there was some coffee, but there’s ___.’
I thought there was some coffee, but there’s none.’
We can also use none ___ the/my/Tom’s/etc. + ___ or none ___ + ___ /___/___
We can also use none of the/my/Tom’s/etc. + noun or none of + us/you/them.
___ ___ my students is/are from France.
None of my students is/are from France.
___ ___ ___ is/are from France.(they aren’t)
None of them is/are from France.
Note that when None of … is the ___ of a sentence, we can use the verb in singular (more formal) or plural form (more informal).
Note that when None of … is the subject of a sentence, we can use the verb in singular (more formal) or plural form (more informal).
We use ___, ___, and ___with positive verbs (none,no one, no place)
We use nothing, nobody, and nowhere with positive verbs
___, ___, and ___ in negative sentences and questions (none, no one, no place
anything, anybody, and anywhere in negative sentences and questions
Nothing, nobody, nowhere = ___ ___ , ___ ___ , ___ ___
Nothing, nobody, nowhere = not anything, not anybody, not anywhere
There’s ___ that we can do. (=There isn’t anything that we can do.)
There’s nothing that we can do. (=There isn’t anything that we can do.)
Have you seen John ___?
Have you seen John anywhere?
We saw ___. (=We didn’t see anybody)
We saw nobody. (=We didn’t see anybody)
___ happened. (not anything)
Nothing happened.
We can use anything/anybody/anywhere in affirmative sentences to mean ‘___ ___ ___ what/who/where.
We can use anything/anybody/anywhere in affirmative sentences to mean ‘it doesn’t matter what/who/where.
We can do ___. (=It doesn’t matter what.)
We can do anything. (=It doesn’t matter what.)
___ in the school could help us. (=It doesn’t matter who.)
Anybody in the school could help us. (=It doesn’t matter who.)
We can go ___. (=It doesn’t matter where.)
We can go anywhere. (=It doesn’t matter where.)
