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Smiles A Lot Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

everybody singular or plural

I was watching a movie and the character said "Everybody love me".
I always used "everybody" as singular, but there love has no singular s.
Please help me here.

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Everybody, everyone, somebody, someone, nobody and no one are all singular. As for the character in the movie, either you misheard her or the expression represents her ignorance, her dialect, or her idiolect.

— Mister Micawber

  • Everybody, everyone, somebody, someone, nobody and no one are all singular.
  • As for the character in the movie, either you misheard her or the expression represents her ignorance, her dialect, or her idiolect.
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Everybody, everyone, somebody, someone, nobody and no one are all singular. As for the character in the movie, either you misheard her or the expression represents her ignorance, her dialect, or her idiolect.
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Thanks Emotion: smile
I checked that again. I misheard that! She used past simple and I focused on hearing s sound. But it was "loved". She wa
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Mister Micawber As for the character in the movie, either you misheard her or the expression represents her ignorance, her dialect, or her idiolect.
ALso, it's common in baby talk.
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AlpheccaStarsALso, it's common in baby talk.
Emotion: big smile I can imagine.
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