INDEFINITES

+256.+ We have one more class of adjectives called indefinites.

+An indefinite adjective is one that does not denote any particular

person or thing.+

All such adjectives as _each_, _every_, _either_, _neither_, _some_,

_any_, _many_, _much_, _few_, _all_, _both_, _no_, _none_, _several_ and

_certain_ are indefinite adjectives. We use them when we are not

speaking of any particular person or thing, but are speaking in a broad,

general sense and in an indefinite manner.

+257.+ The interrogative adjectives are sometimes used in this

indefinite way. They are sometimes used to modify nouns when a direct

question is not asked, and they are then used, not as interrogative

adjectives, but as indefinite adjectives. For example:

He did not know which party to join.

I have not learned what time he will go.

In these sentences _which_ and _what_ are not used to ask questions, but

are used to describe an unknown object.

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