Determiners: Any, Anyone & Anything

Determiners: Any, Anyone & Anything

1. Any

   • Uses
     • In negative and interrogative sentences, both with countable and uncountable nouns.
     • In conditional sentences.
     • In affirmative sentences, but with a slightly different meaning.
     • As with some, we also have compound words that follow the same rules: anybody, anyone, anything...
   • Examples
     • Have you bought any milk?
     • If I had any money, I would buy new clothes
     • You can eat any of these apples
     • There aren’t any apples in the kitchen counter

2. Anyone

   • Uses
     • We use anyone to refer to both an open, unlimited set of things or people and specific things or people.
   • Examples
     • Has anyone got a dictionary?
     • I don't think anyone was timing me.
     • We can't get them from anyone else.

3. Anything

   • Uses
     • Means a thing of any kind. Use it in questions and negative sentences. It can also be used to to mean I don't mind.
   • Examples
     • She doesn't do anything around the house.
     • He doesn't know anything.
     • There wasn't anything in the refrigerator.