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539 Glossary for any unfamiliar terms

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Today most of the Greenlanders live near the coast, particularly in the south

west. Here, snow lies only in the winter and 

people

can graze sheep, cows and

reindeer and grow crops. 

Those who live further north earn their money mainly

from fishing.

None, enough

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Indefinite quantifying pronouns (

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207

) are also used to substitute for noun

phrases:

The survivors

then spoke up, backing the corporal’s claim that they were left in

a copse facing overwhelming machine-gun fire while their leaders went off

supposedly to make contact with each other. 

None had heard an order to

retreat, so they stayed until all their comrades had been killed and the options

were die or run.

Spencer’s getting 

a huge lot of money

. The others don’t get 

that much.

(informal; more formal: The others don’t get so much.)

A: Do we have 

bread

?

B: Yes, but not enough for breakfast.

They

had found each other’s company delightful, stimulating. Yet 

each was

wary of using 

the other; and, paradoxically, that had turned them into

comrades, co-conspirators, almost.