1、含有-one和-body的不定代詞功能和意義基本相同,含有-one的不定代詞比含有-body的不定代詞正式。
2、所有不定代詞都當作單數對待。
Someone is asking to see you. / Nobody is absent.
3、帶有some的復合不定代詞一般用于肯定句,帶有any的復合不定代詞一般用于否定句和疑問句。
Someone suggests putting off the meeting.
Did you meet anyone on your way home.
★含有some的復合不定代詞也可以用于疑問句中,表示肯定的的意思。含有any的復合不定代詞也可以用于肯定句中表示“任何人”或“任何事”。
Why don't you say something? Anybody can go.
4、somebody和nobody可以表示“重要人物”和“小人物”的意思。
He thinks himself a somebody, but he is nobody.
5、else和形容詞作復合不定代詞的定語時都要后置。
He wanted to read something interesting.
He wants to see nobody else.
(來源:網絡)