No-one can find Howard or Barbara anywhere.
Nowhere makes a clause negative.
There was nowhere to hide.
If nowhere is at the beginning of a clause, the subject of the verb must be placed after an auxiliary or a form of be or have.
Nowhere have I seen any serious mention of this.
Nowhere are they overwhelmingly numerous.
Haven’t you got some place to go?
Video-conferencing can connect anyone, anytime, anyplace.
adding information
6.62 There are several structures you can use with indefinite place adverbs in order to give more information. You can use:
I would like to work somewhere abroad.
We’re certainly nowhere near.
We could go to Majorca if you want somewhere lively.
Are you going somewhere nice?
The waiter wasn’t anywhere in sight.
In 1917, Kollontai was the only woman in any government anywhere in the world.
We mentioned that we were looking for somewhere to live.
I wanted to have somewhere to put it.
You can also use a relative clause. Note that the relative pronoun is usually omitted.
Was there anywhere you wanted to go?
Everywhere I went, people were angry or suspicious.
different or additional places
6.63 Else is used after the indefinite place adverb to indicate a different or additional place.
We could hold the meeting somewhere else.
More people die in bed than anywhere else.
Elsewhere can be used instead of somewhere else.
Gwen sat next to the window. The other girls had found seats elsewhere.
6.64 Everywhere and anywhere can also be used as the subjects of verbs, especially be.
Sometimes I feel that anywhere, just anywhere, would be better than this.
I looked around for a shop, but everywhere was closed.
Destinations and directions
adverbs indicating destinations and targets
6.65 Adverbs can be used to indicate destinations and targets.
I have expected you, she said, inviting him inside.
No birds or animals came near.
The following adverbs are used to indicate destinations or targets:
aboard
abroad
ashore
close
downstairs
downtown
heavenward
home
homeward
in
indoors
inland
inside
inward
inwards
near
next door
outdoors
out of doors
outside
overseas
skyward
there
underground
upstairs
uptown
The comparative forms nearer and closer are more commonly used than near or close.
Come nearer.
Deep, far, high, and low are also used as adverbs showing a destination or target but only when they are modified in some other way.
The dancers sprang high into the air brandishing their spears.
The comparative forms deeper, further (or farther), higher, and lower are also used, and so is the superlative form furthest (or farthest). These do not have to be modified in any way.
We left the waterfall and climbed higher.
People have to trek further and further.
relative direction
6.66 Adverbs can be used to show direction in relation to the particular position of the person or thing you are talking about. For more information on phrasal verbs, see paragraphs 3.83 to 3.116.
Go north from Leicester Square up Wardour Street.
Don’t look down.
…the part of the engine that was spinning around.
Mrs James gave a little cry and hurried on.
They grabbed him and pulled him backwards.
He turned left and began strolling slowly down the street.
They can also show the direction in which someone or something is facing in relation to the front of the place they are in.
The seats face forward.
The following adverbs are used to show direction of this sort:
ahead
along
back
backward
backwards
forward
forwards
left
on
onward
right
sideways
~
anti-clockwise
around
clockwise
counterclockwise (American)
down
downward
downwards
east
eastward
eastwards
north
northward
northwards
north-east
north-west
south
southward
southwards
south-east
south-west
round
up
upward
upwards
west
westward
westwards
movement in several directions
6.67 The adverbs round, about, and around show movement in several directions within a place.
Stop rushing about!
They won’t want anyone else trampling around.
The following adverbial expressions are used to talk about repeated movement in different directions:
back and forth
backwards and forwards
from side to side
in and out
round and round
to and fro
up and down
At other times she would pace up and down outside the trailer.
Burke was walking back and forth as he spoke.
movement away