ONE/ONES & INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

ONE/ONES & INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

By Hannah -

Do you enjoy going to cafés and restaurants?

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Watch Discovery Education

​Page 87

• What can you eat at Katz's Delicatessen?

• Does Sylvia's Restaurant have Chinese food?

• What does everyone enjoy at Serendipity?​

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What can you eat at Katz's Delicatessen?

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Does Sylvia's Restaurant have Chinese food?

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What does everyone enjoy at Serendipity?​

Complete the example from text on page 86

TYPE YOUR ANSWER IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS​

ONE / ONES

Refer to a person or thing when we don't want to repeat a noun in a sentence.

​ONE /ONES

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​ONE: SINGULAR ONES: PLURAL​

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• I like all my presents, but this one is my favorite.

• A: Which birthday cards do you prefer? B: The cheapest ones.

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Complete the conversations with one or ones.

Lucy: Which 1. ... is your skateboard?

Caroline: That 2. ... .

Lucy: Is it the 3. ... with red stars?

Caroline: No, it's got blue 4. ... .

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Complete the conversations with one or ones.

Tania: I like those shoes.

Jenny: Which 5 ... ? The 6 ... on the brown box?

Tania: No, those shoes on the black 7 ... .

Jenny: Oh! I prefer the boots next to those ... .

Complete the example from text on page 86

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AFFIRMATIVE

PEOPLE: There's something for 1. ... there.

THINGS: You can have 2. ... to drink at the café.

PLACES: There's always 3. ... to put your towel.

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NEGATIVE

PEOPLE: There's something for NOBODY there.

THINGS: You can have 4. ... to drink at the café.

PLACES: There's always ANYWHERE to put your towel.

INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

• We use indefinite pronouns to refer to people, things and places in a general way.

  I want to go somewhere at the weekend.

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• ​These words are singular.

  Everyone​ is excited about the wedding.

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• We usually use an affirmative verb with no one, nothing and nowhere.

  ​There is nothing to do here!

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• ​We usually use a negative verb with anyone, anything and anywhere.

  I haven't got anything to do today.

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Replace the underlined words with an indefinite pronoun.

1. Where's Jack? He's in a room in the school.

2. I've looked for my bag in all the places in the house. I can't find it in any place.

3. There's no food in the fridge.

4. Ouch! I've got a small object in my shoe!

5. There's not one place we can buy milk.