Indefinite Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns is not used for anyone or
somebody, specific noun, animal, or total. This indefinite pronouns is not
clear, kind of indefinite pronouns follow as :
each, each other, one another,
someone, somebody, somewhere, any, anyone, anybody, anything, something,
anywhere, one, another, the other, the others, everybody, everyone, everything, nobody, no-one, none.
Kinds
of indefinite pronoun is two difference useditas singular and plural, attention
under table as :
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Meaning
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Example sentence
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SINGULAR (TUNGGAL)
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Another
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Another, for people/ singular noun
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That cake is delicious.
May I have another?
I don’t like this pen. I
want another.
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Anyone/ Anybody
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Indefinite his people who. (anyone/anybody)
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Can anybody do this puzzle?
Don’t equal anyone to God.
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Anything
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Object/ something
indeterminate. (Anything)
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Do you have anything useful in your suitcase?
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Each
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Every, each.
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I have two watches, each costs Rp. 100.000,-
The dancers are beautiful, each has her own style.
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Everybody/ Everyone
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Every/ All people.
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Everybody uses the phone for long distance
communication.
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Everything
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Everything
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The thief has stolen everything inside his bag.
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Nobody/ No-one
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Nobody
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I knocked the door many
times, but nobody opened the door.
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One
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the indeterminate
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This car is new, but that one is old.
He looks for one who stole his wallet.
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Someone/ Somebody
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someone
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Somebody help me, please.
He killed someone in the river last month.
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Something
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unknown object
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I promise that I will
give her something in her
birthday.
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The other
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certain only objects
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She will not tell the other that story but me.
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PLURAL (JAMAK)
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Each other
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One another, for two people
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They help each other.
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One another
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One another, for more than two peole.
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We love one another.
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The others
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another, to a
person/object plural indefinite
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I prefer stay here and the others go to the swimming pool.
These cars are very
expensive. I want others.
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SINGULAR OR PLURAL (TUNGGAL ATAU JAMAK)
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Any
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Anything, that is anywhere, indiscriminately.
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Do you have any information about this case?
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Anywhere
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Places
that are not necessarily. (Anywhere / everywhere / anywhere.)
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I will go anywhere in the world.
I swear, I will not go anywhere and I will stay here.
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None
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None
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I have downloaded that
album and it contains 11 songs, but none
is good.
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Somewhere
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The
place is not known / determined.
(Somewhere) |
I think my wallet was
dropped somewhere.
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NOTE :
Sometime
somebody is used pronoun somewhere for positive sentence (+) and anywhere for
negative sentence (-), actually it’s not problem, pronoun anywhere sometime it’s
able to use positive sentence.
Example :
-
I
will go anywhere in the world
So,
I hope to use pronoun with contex that sentence please
Reflexive Pronoun
Reflexive Pronoun is used for subject (personal pronoun or animal) received action from verb (reciprocal action) in the sentences.
pronoun are
: myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself,
for singular, and yourselves,
ourselves, and themselves for plural form is identic
with intensive pronoun.
Example Sentence Reflexive Pronoun
Some examples of sentences reflexive pronoun for singular
or plural as :
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Number
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Pronoun
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Example sentence Reflexive Pronoun
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Singular
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myself
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I‘m going to buy myself new
jeans.
(Saya akan membeli jeans baru untuk saya sendiri.) |
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yourself
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It’s
essential to treat others like you treat yourself.
(Penting untuk memperlakukan orang lain seperti kamu memperlakukan diri sendiri.) |
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herself
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She asked herself why she
was easy to be panic.
(Dia bertanya pada dirinya sendiri mengapa dulu dia mudah panik.) |
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himself
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Hendri didn’t blame himself
for the accident.
(Hendri tidak menyalahkan dirinya sendiri terhadap kecelakaan tersebut.) |
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itself
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The cat is licking itself.
(Kucing itu sedang menjilayi dirinya.) |
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Plural
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yourselves
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Why
don’t you watch yourselves on TV?
(Mengapa kamu tidak menonton dirimu di TV?) |
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ourselves
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We should give time for ourselves
to take a rest.
(Kita seharusnya memberi waktu untuk diri kita sendiri untuk beristirahat.) |
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themselves
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The students ate cookies that they
cooked by themselves.
(Siswa-siswa tersebut makan kue yang mereka masak sendiri.) |
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