Indefinite pronouns are pronouns that do not refer to a specific person or thing. They are used when we want to refer to an unknown or unspecified entity.
Here are two examples of indefinite pronouns in ellipted conditional clauses:
Anything we can do, anything you need, just tell us.
Anything you want there, anything at all, just take it.
*They mean: “if there is anything that we can do” or “if there is anything that you want”
C1 point 100 in PRONOUNS/indefinite is defined as:
‘anything’ in an ellipted clause. (‘if there is anything …’)
When looking at the English Grammar Profile examples, we can see that they all contain a following imperative clause. The usage is similar to ‘polite offers’.
Anything else you need, ask …
Anything you need …, please don’t hesitate ….
Anything you want …., feel free ….
*Looking at ‘need’ or ‘want’ shows that the adverb ‘just’ is most common in the main clause. Also, note that there are two ‘anything’ clauses in our first examples.
*This requires manually checking all entries below. There is no way to automatically differentiate ‘if there is anything’ from a relative clause.
We can start with a search in iWeb for:
. Anything _P _V *
1 . ANYTHING YOU CAN DO 632
2 . ANYTHING I CAN DO 343
3 . ANYTHING WE CAN DO 230
4 . ANYTHING YOU WANT TO 202
5 . ANYTHING YOU CAN THINK 88
6 . ANYTHING YOU DO TO 70
7 . ANYTHING YOU NEED TO 63
8 . ANYTHING I NEED TO 53
9 . ANYTHING YOU DON’T 48
10 . ANYTHING I SHOULD KNOW 37
11 . ANYTHING YOU WANT. 36
12 . ANYTHING YOU DO IN 35
13 . ANYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE 34
Anything you can imagine you would need or want to do on a softphone, you can do.
14 . ANYTHING YOU NEED, 33
15 . ANYTHING YOU ADD TO 31 (most examples were relative clauses)
16 . ANYTHING YOU CAN GIVE 30
17 . ANYTHING YOU WANT, 30
18 . ANYTHING YOU DO THAT 29
19 . ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO 29
20 . ANYTHING YOU PUT IN 28
21 . ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN 28
22 . ANYTHING YOU TRANSMIT OR 27
23 . ANYTHING YOU’D LIKE 27
24 . ANYTHING YOU CAN TELL 26
Bluegrass TodayAsk Sonny Anything… tell us about working with the symphony
Anything you can tell us about you as a singer would be appreciated.
23 Oct 2020
25 . ANYTHING I COULD DO 25
26 . ANYTHING YOU CAN SUGGEST 24
27 . ANYTHING I SHOULD BE 24
28 . ANYTHING YOU DO WILL 23
29 . ANYTHING WE DO TO 23
30 . ANYTHING YOU COULD DO 22
31 . ANYTHING YOU DO WITH 21
32 . ANYTHING I DON’T 20
33 . ANYTHING I WANT TO 20
34 . ANYTHING YOU CAN SAY 20
35 . ANYTHING YOU DO, 20
36 . ANYTHING YOU WANNA 18
38 . ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE 18
39 . ANYTHING YOU CAN’T 17
40 . ANYTHING IT TAKES TO 17
41 . ANYTHING I SHOULD LOOK 17
42 . ANYTHING YOU CAN OFFER 17
43 . ANYTHING YOU DO ON 17
44 . ANYTHING YOU SEE ON 17
45 . ANYTHING YOU PUT ON 16
46 . ANYTHING YOU CAN PUT 16
47 . ANYTHING YOU CAN MAKE 16
48 . ANYTHING THEY CAN DO 16
49 . ANYTHING I SHOULD DO 15
50 . ANYTHING I CAN GET 15
51 . ANYTHING YOU COULD POSSIBLY 15
52 . ANYTHING YOU CAN SHARE 15
53 . ANYTHING YOU DO NOT 15
54 . ANYTHING YOU DO IS 15
55 . ANYTHING YOU CAN GET 15
56 . ANYTHING YOU NEED FOR 14
57 . ANYTHING YOU CAN NOT 14
58 . ANYTHING YOU CAN DREAM 14
59 . ANYTHING I CAN THINK 14
60 . ANYTHING I’M MISSING 13
61 . ANYTHING YOU DO CAN 13
62 . ANYTHING YOU CHOOSE TO 13
63 . ANYTHING YOU CAN USE 12
64 . ANYTHING YOU CAN TO 12
65 . ANYTHING I DO IS 12
66 . ANYTHING I CAN’T 12
67 . ANYTHING YOU SAY TO 12
68 . ANYTHING YOU WANTED TO 12
69 . ANYTHING YOU THINK YOU 11
70 . ANYTHING YOU WANT IS 11
71 . ANYTHING I CAN CHECK 11
72 . ANYTHING YOU CAN FIND 11
73 . ANYTHING YOU CAN RECOMMEND 10
74 . ANYTHING YOU COULD THINK 10
75 . ANYTHING WE DON’T 10
76 . ANYTHING I CAN HELP 10
77 . ANYTHING I DO, 10
78 . ANYTHING YOU LIKE. 10
79 . ANYTHING YOU NEED IS 10
80 . ANYTHING YOU SAY WILL 10
B2 vocabulary according to text inspector: add to, can tell
*’can tell’ seems incorrectly tagged in text inspector.
B1 vocabulary:
imagine, recommend, suggest