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somebody pronoun uk /ˈsʌm.bə.di//ˈsʌmˌbɒd.i/ us /ˈsʌmˌbɑː.di//ˈsʌmˌbʌ.di/ A2 someone某人
Somebody in the office will know. Somebody rang while you were at Polly's house. Somebody told me she lives near here. Somebody must have seen it happen. You could give it to somebody else. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Someone, anyone, no one or everyone across-the-board all and sundryidiom all comers anybody anyone man no one nobody non-universal one and allidiom one-size-fits-all pan people sundry to a manidiom Tom, Dick, and Harry universal universality whole world
Grammar
Someone, somebody, something, somewhere Someone, somebody, something, somewhere are indefinite pronouns. They function in a similar way to some. We use them in affirmative clauses and in questions expecting a particular answer. We can use them to refer to both general and specific people or things. We use them with a singular verb: …
Are doctors heroes when they save somebody’s life? In many countries, when somebody becomes an adult, they have a party. Is a firefighter a hero when he or she helps somebody leave a burning house? It can be a friend or somebody in your family. Somebody paid a million dollars for a parking space! When a snake bites somebody, it puts venom into the person’s body.
somebody | American Dictionary somebody pronoun us/ˈsʌmˌbɑd·i, -bəd·i/ a person; someone: I’d rather take care of my own kids than let somebody I don’t know raise them. You don’t have the right to interfere in somebody else’s life. |