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somebooy etc in affirmative clauses, and anyboay etc usually in
questions and negatives.
There's somebody at the door.
Did anyone telephone?
| don’t think anybody telephoned.
Let's go somewhere nice for dinner.
Do you know anywhere nice?
{don’t want to go anywhere too expensive.
Somebody, something, anybody and anything are singular. Compare:
There is somebody waiting to see you.
There are some people waiting to see you.

318 sound

Sound is a ‘copula verb’ (see 91). We use it with adjectives, not adverbs.
You sound unhappy. What's the matter?
(NOT -Yet-seuncunhappily ...)

We do not usually use sound in progressive tenses.
The car sounds a bit funny. (NOT Fhe earis-seunding ...)

Note the structure sound like.
That sounds like Arthur coming upstairs.

319 spelling: capital letters

We use capital (big) letters at the beginning of the following words:
days, months and public holidays
Sunday Tuesday March September Easter Christmas
the names of people and places
John Mary Canada TheUnited States Mars
North Africa The Ritz Hote! The Super Cinema
people's titles
Mr Smith Professor Jones Colonel Blake Dr Webb
‘nationality’ and regional words (nouns or adjectives)
He's Russian |speakGerman Japanese history
Catalan cooking

the first word (and often other important words) in the names of books,
plays, films, pictures, magazines etc
Gone with the wind OR Gone withthe Wind New Scientist