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Examples are "ever", "anything" and "anyone" in the sentence "I haven't ever owed anything to anyone" (cf. "I haven't never owed nothing to no one" in negative-concord dialects of English, and "Nunca devi nada a ninguém" in Portuguese, lit. "Never have I owed nothing to no one", or "Non ho mai dovuto nulla a nessuno" in Italian). Negative ...
no one (also no-one), nobody – No one/Nobody thinks that you are mean. everyone, everybody – Everyone/Everybody has a cup of coffee. Universal distributive: each – "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". someone, somebody – Someone/Somebody usually fixes that. one - One gets lost without a map.
no (also interjection) no one; nobody; none; nothing; nowhere; once; one (also noun and pronoun) said (also verb) several (also adjective) some; somebody; something; somewhere; sufficient (also adjective) that; the; these; this; those; three (also noun) thrice; twice; two (also noun) us (also pronoun) various; we (also pronoun) what (also ...
For example, we can say Juan fue el que perdió las llaves ("Juan was the one who lost the keys") or El que perdió las llaves fue Juan ("The one who lost the keys was Juan"). As can be seen from the translations, if this word order is chosen, English stops using the cleft structure (there is no more dummy "it" and a nominalising relative is ...
In Spanish, the words sí 'yes' and no 'no' are unambiguously classified as adverbs: serving as answers to questions and also modifying verbs. The affirmative sí can replace the verb after a negation ( Yo no tengo coche, pero él sí = I don't own a car, but he does ) or intensify it ( I don't believe he owns a car.
Outis (a transliteration of the Ancient Greek pronoun Οὖτις, meaning "nobody" or "no one") [1] is an often used pseudonym that appeared famously in Classical Greek legends. Modern artists, writers, and others in public life have adopted the use of this pseudonym in order to hide their identity and it has been used for fictional characters ...
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For an overview of dependency grammar structure in modern linguistic analysis, three example sentences are shown. The first sentence, The proposal has been intensively examined, is described as follows. The three verbs together form a chain, or verb catena (in purple), which functions as the predicate of the sentence.