January 22nd, 2025

Homework for Monday, January 27th, 2025: exercise 17 page 166 & exercise 14 p. 159

cast, cast, cast a vote = give a vote
at face value
Every dog will have its day.
It's no use crying over the spilt milk.
Let bygones be bygones.
Ad astra per sidera.

INDEFINITE PRONOUNS:

1) a) EVERY pitää olla pääsanan kanssa
Matti goes to the gym every day.
Every student knows that smoking is not allowed in school premises.
b) EVERYBODY / EVERYONE viittaa ihmiseen
Everybody knows him.
c) EVERYTHING viittaa asioihin ja elottomiin olioihin
Everything seems to go wrong today.
NB! Every one of the students knows it.
Every one of us knows it.

2) SOME
a) I have some questions for you.
I would like to have some milk with my coffee.
Some thirty people came to my party.
b) SOMEBODY / SOMEONE viittaa ihmiseen
Somebody stole his car.
There is somebody at the door.
c) SOMETHING viittaa asioihin
Something went wrong.
something + adjektiivi
There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.
You are something special.
NB!
Some of you passed the test.
yksikkö: One of you passed the test.

3) ANY + pääsana
a) 1. Any car will do. = Mikä tahansa auto kelpaa.
2. kieltosana tai rajoittavan sanan kanssa
He didn't read any books.
rajoittavat määreet: hardly = barely = scarcely = TUSKIN, little, only, without; seldom = rarely = HARVOIN
He seldom read any books.
3. kysymykset
Have you ever read any English books?
b) anybody / anyone
1. Anybody could solve this problem.
2. kiellot + rajoittavat
I didn't know anyone there.
I have hardly talked to anyone today.
3. kys.
Have you seen anybody here?
c) anything viittaa asioihin
1. Anything can happen.
2. kiellot + rajoittavat
I haven't said anything.
I rarely said anything.
NB!
Any of you could solve this problem.
Any of the students could solve the problem.

4. NO + pääsana
a) No man is an island, entire of itself.
Yksikään ihminen ei ole saari...
b) no one / no-one / nobody viittaa ihmiseen
Nobody knows the troubles I've seen...
c) nothing viittaa asioihin
Nothing compares to you. (Sinead O'Connor)
NB!
None of us know / knows him.