Anyone or Any One, None or No One

What is the difference between anyone and any one? What is the difference between none and no one? Read this infographic.

Richard Nordquist says:

  1. Anyone is used to refer to any person at all, but not a specific individual.
  2. Any one is used to refer to any single member of a group of people or things.

He also says:

  1. Nobody and no one are singular pronouns and can be used interchangeably to mean no person.
  2. None can be singular or plural, depending on if it means ‘not any’ or ‘not one’.
  3. None refers to people or things, unlike nobody and no one that only refer to people.

Anyone or Any One, None or No One

Anyone or Any One, None or No One

Source for Poster: Grammar.Net
Posted on: 2nd September 2014
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