or anybody
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You use ~ or anybody in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nobody is present or involved in an action.
You needn’t talk to ~ if you don’t want to...
He was far too scared to tell anybody...
PRON
2.
You use ~ or anybody in questions and conditional clauses to ask or talk about whether someone is present or doing something.
Why would ~ want that job?...
If ~ deserves to be happy, you do.
PRON
3.
You use ~ or anybody before words which indicate the kind of person you are talking about.
It’s not a job for ~ who is slow with numbers...
Anybody interested in pop culture at all should buy ‘Pure Cult’.
PRON: PRON cl/group
4.
You use ~ or anybody to refer to a person when you are emphasizing that it could be any person out of a very large number of people.
Anyone could be doing what I’m doing...
PRON emphasis
5.
You use ~ who is ~ and anybody who is anybody to refer to people who are important or influential.
PHRASE