anyone
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- (indefinite) (singular) Any person. You use this word when there is no limit to who might be meant. You might be able to change anyone to any person's name.
- Help! Can anyone hear me?
- I don't know anyone here.
- Anyone who saw the accident should phone the police.
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- Anyone is not like a pronoun. It has no reflexive form and no different subject or object forms. It even uses the possessive 's of common nouns. For this reason, some people consider it to be a compound determiner.