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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Every student or all students
Hi. Let's say for a simplicity sake there's a class of 6 and you're conducting a survey as to how many times they clean their rooms a week. And the result came out as follows: One person cleans fheir room 6 times a week, two students clean their rooms four times a week, and three people clean their rooms 2 or 3 times a week.
Based on the result, I think all three of the statements below are correct. I also think no. 1 without the part in the parentheses still makes sense in a very general way. I'm sorry, but please help me with this, too. Should the underlined part in no. 1 be "their room" or "their rooms"? I think it should be "their room" since the antecedent of "their" is "Everyone." Then why do we say, "Everyone rose from their seats" when one person rose from his or her seat? Thank you in advance for your help.
1. Every student cleans their room (at least once a week).
2. All the students clean their rooms (at least once a week).
3. All students clean their rooms (at least once a week).
Based on the result, I think all three of the statements below are correct. I also think no. 1 without the part in the parentheses still makes sense in a very general way. I'm sorry, but please help me with this, too. Should the underlined part in no. 1 be "their room" or "their rooms"? I think it should be "their room" since the antecedent of "their" is "Everyone." Then why do we say, "Everyone rose from their seats" when one person rose from his or her seat? Thank you in advance for your help.
1. Every student cleans their room (at least once a week).
2. All the students clean their rooms (at least once a week).
3. All students clean their rooms (at least once a week).
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Anonymous Should the underlined part in no. 1 be "their room" or "their rooms"? " The solution to #1 is to avoid 'every' and therefore avoid controversy.
- Anonymous Should the underlined part in no.
- 1 be "their room" or "their rooms"?
- " The solution to #1 is to avoid 'every' and therefore avoid controversy.
- Since these are specific, aforementioned students, #3 is inappropriate.
- That leaves #2 as the correct sentence.
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AnonymousShould the underlined part in no. 1 be "their room" or "their rooms"? I think it should be "their room" since the antecedent of "their" is "Everyone."The solution to #1 is to avoid 'every' and therefore avoid controversy.
Since these are specific, aforementioned students, #3 is inappropriate.
That leaves #2 as the correct sentence.
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