Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:58:21 EDT
Anyone Versus Any One
- Anyone
- The singular pronoun anyone represents any single person. “Does anyone know where we are?”
- Any One
- The adjective-pronoun pair any one specifies any single item in a group and is followed by a preposition that may be elided. “I would gladly eat any one (of those dishes).” “I will sleep in any one (of your rooms).” “Any one (of those choices) will do.” It’s more common to modify a role with any than it is to modify the anonymous third person one, but you can do it. “Any one/author (in that group) will know to what I refer.”