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Header
Four quotes here ...
- When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Charles Caleb Colton.
- He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That clearly point to political career. George Bernard Shaw.
- Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Anon.
- Learnings is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb.
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How to use
- Anything or something to say about thing or idea;
- Anybody or anyone, somebody or someone to say about person. Words -body and -one are the same in meaning;
- Anywhere or somewhere to say about place;
- Everywhere = all places, everybody or everyone = all people, everithing = all things, nowhere = no place, nobody or no one = no person, nothing = no thing or not anything;
- Usually something, somewhere, somebody and someone in the statements [some];
- Often anything, anywhere, anybody and anyone in negative sentences and questions [any];
- Words with any- mean all- when the sentence is not include who it is;
- Use nothing, nowhere, nobody and no one in the statements and questions;
- Useally everything, everywhere, everybody and everyone in statements.
Tip #1
- I didn't hear anything. I heard nothing.
I didn't hear nothing.
Tip #2
- Everybody, everyone, everything + singular verb
- Everybody was here.
Everybody were there.
Calculation
- I have words: -thing, -body, -one, -where;
- I have prefixes: any-, some-, no-, every-;
It is total sixteen possible combinations:
- Is about one or more and for negatives and questions:
- anything;
- anybody;
anyone- when one is obvious other is burden;- anywhere;
- It is not accurate in counting:
- something;
- somebody;
someone- when one is obvious other is burden;- somewhere;
- It take possibility that any is possible:
- nothing;
- nobody;
no one- when one is obvious other is burden;- nowhere;
- It mean all:
- everything;
- everybody;
- everyone;
- everywhere;