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The pronoun another also has a dual reference, but it correlates only with count nouns in the singular.
Will you have another cup?
Then another runner came into view.
Another has two meanings:
1) a different one -
I
don’t very much like this dress, will you show me another.
2) one more, one in addition to the one or ones mentioned before –
She asked me a question, then another.
Detaching pronouns can be used as subject, object, adverbial modifier and attribute.
§ 224. Universal pronouns indicate all objects (persons and non-persons) as one whole or any
representative of the group separately. They are: all, both, each, every, everything, everybody, everyone, either.
Of these only everybody and everyone have the category of case (everybody - everybody's, everyone –
everyone’s), others have no grammatical categories.
These pronouns, as can be seen from the definition, differ in their reference.
Some universal pronouns (all, everybody) have always collective or all-embracing reference. They
correspond to the Russian все, весь, целый, вс¸ as in:
All were present.
Все присутствовали.
All night long she sat by the window.
Всю ночь напролет она просидела у окна.
I haven’t read all the book.
Я не прочел всей книги.
Everything looks so beautiful in spring.
Все так красиво весной.
She is everything to me.
Она для меня вс¸.
Two pronouns (both, either) indicate a group comprising two persons or non-persons treated either as a
whole (both) or as consisting of individual objects in a group of two (either - каждый из двух). In accordance
with their reference both takes a predicate-verb in the plural and either - in the singular. The article is usually
placed after both.
Both have come in time.
Both the windows were shut.
Either of these will do.
- Оба пришли вовремя.
- Оба окна были закрыты.
- Любой из них подойдет.
Some pronouns (every, each, either) always have individual reference (каждый, другой), therefore they
agree with the predicate-verb in the singular.
She searched every corner, but found nothing.
Each of them keeps silent.
Two pronouns (everybody, everyone) may have both collective and individual reference. In the first case it
corresponds to the Russian все, in the second case to the Russian
каждый. This or that reference is generally
marked not so much by the predicate-verb, as by correlation with personal or possessive pronouns.
Everybody did as he thought best.
Everybody was eager to give his evidence.