EXTRA English 16 Uncle Nick
Grammatik und Übungen
Something, anything, nothing, everything
Something, anything, nothing and everything all refer to THINGS.
• She wants me to look after something for her.
• Do you know anything about her?
• Nothing surprises me any more.
• You have to do everything exactly as I do.
A) Complete the sentences with something, anything, nothing or everything.
1 Do you know ___ anything___ _____ about Cameron Diaz?
2 There's _ _something__ _______ important I want to ask you.
3 Nick is useless! He knows ___nothing______ about looking after children.
4 __ Everything___ __________ in this box is mine! I own it all!
5 Hector is very cool. __ Something / Nothing_____ seems to bother him.
6 Is there _ anything___ _____ you want from the supermarket?
Someone, anyone, no one, everyone
Someone, anyone, no one and everyone all refer to PEOPLE.
• A window cleaner is someone who cleans windows.
• Can’t anyone else do it?
• She’s got no one to look after Lucas.
• Everyone in the class likes pasta.
NOTE: somebody, anybody, nobody and everybody have the same meaning as someone, anyone, etc.
B) Complete these sentences with information about you, your classmates and/or your family.
1 I'm someone who ________likes to dress up.__________ _____________________
2 No one in my family _________has ever been to England._______________________
3 Everyone in the class _______likes music.___________________________________
4 I don't know anyone who ______owns a pet crocodile._ ______________
5 No one in this class _________got up before five o’clock today.__________________
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EXTRA English 16 Uncle Nick
Grammatik und Übungen
C) Complete these sentences with someone, something etc.
1 Is there ___anyone_______ here who can speak Spanish?
2 I can't find __anything________ in this shop that I like.
3 I asked __everyone________ in the class but __nobody___ seems to know the answer!
4 Tell me your whole life story – I want to know ___everything_______ about you!
5 There's __nothing________ vegetarian on the menu.
Too and too much/ too many
You use too with adjectives (too noisy); you use too much/too many with nouns;
you use too much with UNCOUNTABLE nouns (sugar, noise etc); you use too many with COUNTABLE nouns (people, cars etc)
• It's too noisy!
• There are too many people in the flat!
• There's too much noise!
D) Complete the sentences with too or too much / too many.
1 You put ___ _too much__ __ _________ sugar in my coffee!
2 I don't like this exercise – it's _____ _too_ _ _________ difficult.
3 There are ____too many__ ________ students in the class – I only have five books!
4 Please tell me if it's ___ _too much _ _ ________ trouble to do this for me.
5 I don't want to go into the club – there are __ __too many_ __________ people.
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