Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
It's very quiet in the office today. There's ___ here. ___ is on holiday.

• A. anybody / everybody
• B. anything / nothing
• C. nobody / all of them
• D. somebody / nothing
• E. nobody / everybody

Answer 1

Answer: (E)

nobody / everybody

Indefinite pronouns refer to persons or things we do not know.

The given sentence indicates the people in the office. So, in both the blanks an indefinite pronoun must be used which refers to a person.

'Anybody' and 'noboby' both is used to indicate people. Anybody is used to indicate a part of the whole while nobody refers to none.

Since the second sentence indicates a negative sense, 'nobody' must be used.

All of them is not a pronoun.

Hence the complete sentence must be-It's very quiet in the office today. There's nobody here. Everybody is on holiday.

Thus option E is the correct answer. Options A,B,C,D are incorrect.