A) Complete the sentences with something, anything, nothing or everything

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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 ___ ________ about Cameron Diaz?

2 There's ________ ___ important I want to ask you.

3 Nick is useless! He knows ______________ about looking after children.

4 _________ ______ in this box is mine! I own it all!

5 Hector is very cool. ___ ___________ seems to bother him.

6 Is there _____ ____ 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 ________________________________ ___________

2 No one in my family ________________________________ ___________

3 Everyone in the class _____________________________ ______________

4 I don't know anyone who ___________________________________________

5 No one in this class ____________________ ___________ ____________

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C) Complete these sentences with someone, something etc.

1 Is there ____ ______ here who can speak Spanish?

2 I can't find ________ __ in this shop that I like.

3 I asked __________ in the class but __________ seems to know the answer!

4 Tell me your whole life story – I want to know ___ _______ about you!

5 There's ___ ______ 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 ___________ ______ sugar in my coffee!

2 I don't like this exercise – it's ___ ______________ difficult.

3 There are _________________ students in the class – I only have five books!

4 Please tell me if it's ____ _____________ trouble to do this for me.

5 I don't want to go into the club – there are __ ______________ people.

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