How to use anything in a sentence. Anyone, anybody and anything are indefinite pronouns We use anyone, anybody and anything to refer to both an open, unlimited set of things or people and specific things or people. He wasn't anything like his father Anything but by no means She was anything but happy
You use anything to emphasize a possible thing, event, or situation, when you are saying that it could be any one of a very large number of things. From middle english anything, enything, onything, from late old english aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing. Does it taste anything like chocolate Anything but, in no degree or respect The plans were anything but definite. Anything and any thing are easy to confuse
It is used to emphasize that you are referring to any object, as opposed to any person, animal, or idea.
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