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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Indefinite pronoun or noun?

I'm studying english grammar on daily grammar.com, and I've come across something that I didn't really understand. In the sentence He himself had helped my mother do something, "something" is not a indefinite pronoun but a noun.

My question is, how can you tell if a word is an indefinite pronoun or a noun?

(english isn't my native language by the way, so forgive me if I have made some mistakes:)
  

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It looks like an indefinite pronoun to me. Why do you think it is not? Something : –pronoun 1.

— Mister Micawber

  • It looks like an indefinite pronoun to me.
  • Why do you think it is not?
  • Something : –pronoun 1.
  • some thing; a certain undetermined or unspecified thing: Something is wrong there.
  • Something's happening .
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It looks like an indefinite pronoun to me. Why do you think it is not?

Something: –pronoun
1.some thing; a certain undetermined or unspecified thing: Something is wrong there. Something's happening.
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I do think it's a indefinite pronoun, but on daily grammar they said it was a noun, which I don't get.
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