Like the use of any, the pronoun none should be distinguished from the adjective none, which is used absolutely, and hence is more likely to confuse the student.

Compare with the above the following sentences having the adjective none:—­

     Reflecting a summer evening sky in its bosom, though none [no
     sky] was visible overhead.—­THOREAU

     The holy fires were suffered to go out in the temples, and none
     [no fires] were lighted in their own dwellings.—­PRESCOTT

[Sidenote:  All singular and plural.]

425.  The pronoun all has the singular construction when it means everything; the plural, when it means all persons:  for example,—­

[Sidenote:  Singular.]

     The light troops thought ... that all was lost.—­PALGRAVE

     All was won on the one side, and all was lost on the
     other.—­BAYNE

     Having done all that was just toward others.—­NAPIER

[Sidenote:  Plural.]

     But the King’s treatment of the great lords will be judged
     leniently by all who remember, etc.—­PEARSON.

     When all were gone, fixing his eyes on the mace, etc.—­LINGARD

     All who did not understand French were compelled,
     etc.—­McMASTER.

[Sidenote:  Somebody’s else, or somebody else’s?]

426.  The compounds somebody else, any one else, nobody else, etc., are treated as units, and the apostrophe is regularly added to the final word else instead of the first.  Thackeray has the expression somebody’s else, and Ford has nobody’s else, but the regular usage is shown in the following selections:—­

     A boy who is fond of somebody else’s pencil case.—­G.  ELIOT.

     A suit of clothes like somebody else’s.—­THACKERAY.

     Drawing off his gloves and warming his hands before the fire as
     benevolently as if they were somebody else’s.—­DICKENS.

     Certainly not! nor any one else’s ropes.—­RUSKIN.

     Again, my pronunciation—­like everyone else’s—­is in some cases
     more archaic.—­SWEET.

     Then everybody wanted some of somebody else’s.—­RUSKIN.

     His hair...curled once all over it in long tendrils, unlike
     anybody else’s in the world.—­N.P.  WILLIS.

     “Ye see, there ain’t nothin’ wakes folks up like somebody
     else’s wantin’ what you’ve got.”—­MRS. STOWE.

ADJECTIVES.

AGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES WITH NOUNS.

[Sidenote:  These sort, all manner of, etc.]