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Only two negative pronouns have the category of case: nobody – nobody’s, no one - no one’s. The other
pronouns of this subclass have no grammatical categories.
No and none refer to all nouns denoting both persons and things, nothing refers to things, whereas nobody
and no one refer to persons only. Nobody means to offend you. The pronoun neither refers to two persons or
things and therefore correlates only with count nouns. It has a disjunctive force (ни тот, ни другой).
No trees could be seen. I will give you no trouble.
No means not ... a when premodifying count nouns are in the singular.
I
have no pen. = I haven’t a pen with me. (ни одной ручки)
None refers to many people, therefore it agrees with the predicate verb in the plural.
None were present at the meeting.
I remember none of the stories.
Nothing happened. I could see nothing there.
Nobody answered. (Not anybody) No one stirred. (Not anyone)
Neither came back. Neither book interested me.
When neither is used as subject, the predicate verb is in the singular:
Neither was present.
Nobody and no one cannot be postmodified by an of-phrase. Only none can be used in this case.
None of my relatives came to our wedding.
§ 223. Detaching pronouns indicate the detachment of some object from other objects of the same class.
There are only two pronouns of this subclass -
other, another. They are used both as noun-pronouns and as
adjective-pronouns.
One of the girls was pretty, while the other was terribly plain.
He gulped one cup, then another.
I live on the other side.
Both other and another have the category of case (other – other’s, another – another’s), but only other has
the category of number (other -others).
The pronoun other has dual reference, personal and non-personal, and correlates with all subclasses of nouns
in the singular and in the plural:
Other times have come, other people are of importance.
Unlike the majority of pronouns, other (both as a noun-pronoun and as an adjective-pronoun) can be
preceded by the definite article and other determiners.
The other tree was half-withered.
Then he gave me his other hand.
That other question quite upset me.
Show me some other pictures.
His sister’s other child was only five then.
In these sentences other is used as an attribute. The attributive function can also be performed by the noun-
pronoun other in the genitive case, as in: The other’s mouth twitched where other's stands for some noun from
the previous context.