1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:18,140 Hello guys, this is Mr. Charles again and today we will have a quick and refreshing course on Indefinite Pronouns. 2 00:00:20,559 --> 00:00:26,339 So as you can see guys, Indefinite Pronouns are pretty simple concepts, okay? 3 00:00:27,059 --> 00:00:33,119 They tend to be used to refer to people or things, right? 4 00:00:33,119 --> 00:00:41,100 or places without specifying or saying exactly who or what it is that they are or that we're talking about, okay? 5 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:49,240 And as you can tell probably in this chart that I found to be very useful, again, remember I love charts, 6 00:00:49,939 --> 00:00:59,140 the endings body and one are used to refer to people, okay? 7 00:00:59,140 --> 00:01:08,060 The ending thing is for things, obviously, it's quite self-explanatory, and where and 8 00:01:08,060 --> 00:01:15,140 here is for pronouns that refer to places, okay? 9 00:01:17,019 --> 00:01:26,560 Now, we also have to think about how it is that indefinite pronouns are used, so the 10 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:32,719 first thing we have to remember is they tend to be used by a following singular 11 00:01:32,719 --> 00:01:37,959 verb okay so usually when we use an indefinite pronoun they have a singular 12 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:43,519 verb following in the sentence right to make use of it properly you might feel 13 00:01:43,519 --> 00:01:51,640 tempted to use the prefix any negatively okay there are some other rules in 14 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:57,319 specific cases in grammar in which you might be able to do that. But when we're talking about 15 00:01:57,319 --> 00:02:14,520 pronouns, okay, if you say something such as, for example, anybody didn't come, right? We're 16 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:26,009 talking about the ambulance. This would be wrong for a series of reasons. First of all, as I 17 00:02:26,009 --> 00:02:30,090 mentioned, any, when we're talking about pronouns, is not used 18 00:02:30,090 --> 00:02:33,530 negatively, okay? So that's 19 00:02:33,530 --> 00:02:38,069 off the chart for negative clauses in 20 00:02:38,069 --> 00:02:41,770 indefinite pronouns. Then you also have didn't, 21 00:02:42,169 --> 00:02:46,229 okay? Now, when we're using pronouns, 22 00:02:46,389 --> 00:02:50,189 negative pronouns, usually the negative clause is going to be 23 00:02:50,189 --> 00:02:52,409 within the pronoun itself, 24 00:02:52,409 --> 00:03:05,849 okay so we wouldn't have to use didn't okay to express the negativity in the 25 00:03:05,849 --> 00:03:11,729 negative in the sentence using the indefinite pronouns okay so the right 26 00:03:11,729 --> 00:03:20,469 way to use a negative clause in the indefinite pronouns as you can see is 27 00:03:20,469 --> 00:03:30,469 going to be much simpler because all we have to do is put the no okay with the 28 00:03:30,469 --> 00:03:35,650 prefix of the specific pronoun that we're using in this case we're 29 00:03:35,650 --> 00:03:43,110 talking about people okay so be nobody came okay remember it was somebody 30 00:03:43,110 --> 00:03:54,530 call an ambulance and we make the response negative right and that would be nobody came 31 00:03:54,530 --> 00:04:02,050 all right and it is that simple you don't need to make it extra complicated adding things to 32 00:04:02,050 --> 00:04:08,270 the sentence etc all right now guys last but not least let's also remember that to indicate 33 00:04:08,270 --> 00:04:14,909 possessiveness all we have to do okay is add an apostrophe s at the end of the pronoun 34 00:04:14,909 --> 00:04:38,170 so for example somebody's pencil okay or anybody's coat okay simply by adding 35 00:04:38,170 --> 00:04:46,930 apostrophe s at the end of the pronoun we already know okay that this object or 36 00:04:46,930 --> 00:04:50,350 thing belongs to someone or we are indicated that it belongs to someone 37 00:04:50,350 --> 00:04:54,610 Okay. All right, guys, in case you need some more clarification about indefinite pronouns, 38 00:04:54,790 --> 00:05:00,589 I leave you here with a very good video that will help you get things straight. All right. 39 00:05:00,750 --> 00:05:03,589 So thanks for paying attention, guys, and I hope you have a good day. Goodbye.