nobody

«nobody» in Mova's school dictionary: No person; not anyone: "Nobody was home." — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

pronoun (nobody); noun (a nobody — an unimportant person)

meaning for a pupil

1) No person; not anyone: "Nobody was home." tree →

2) As a noun, a person who is not important or famous. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths problems "nobody" means zero people. In stories, "nobody" can show loneliness or a mystery. In safety: if nobody is around to help, call the emergency number. Phrases: nobody else, nobody knows, nobody's perfect.

examples

• Nobody was at the park. tree →
• Nobody knows the answer. tree →
• Nobody likes being left out. tree →
• Nobody's perfect. tree →
• I knocked, but nobody answered. tree →
• Nobody else got all the questions right. tree →
• He felt like a nobody at the new school. tree →
• If nobody can help, call 911. tree →
• For a long time nobody answered. tree →

note

Same as "no one". Use a singular verb: "Nobody is here", "Nobody knows". Do not double the negative: say "Nobody came", not "Nobody didn't come". In a maths problem, "nobody" = 0 people.

In the corpora

• Living in a home costs money every single month, even when nobody buys anything new.
• A chore chart lists the household jobs and who does each one, so work is shared fairly and nobody has to nag.
• A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault.
• Different families believe different things about what happens after death, and nobody knows for certain.
• Voting is secret, so nobody has to tell anyone how they voted, not even their own family.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nobody» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.