How do I use "none"?
Hello. How do I use "none"? It's a demonstrative pronoun like "this", "that", "these", "those".
For example Image I am a british person who goes to India for holidays and after some time I realize that the people there hate some kind of fruit (for example appricot) and after I go back to England I tell my friend (who has never been in India in his life)
"None of the people there like apricots".
Is this a correct usage? Do I demonstrate anything here(even though he didn't see that with his eyes)?
Top answer
None of the people there like apricots. Yes, it's fine. "None" is a 'negative determinative'.
- None of the people there like apricots.
- Yes, it's fine.
- "None" is a 'negative determinative'.
- It's the independent form of the "no" found in No people there like apricots".
- It functions as a 'fused determiner head' in a partitive construction.
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None of the people there like apricots.
Yes, it's fine. "None" is a 'negative determinative'. It's the independent form of the "no" found in No people there like apricots".
It functions as a 'fused determiner head' in a partitive construction. It's partitive in the sense that it denotes a subset of some set consisting of "people". In this case, the subset is everyone
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