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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Everybody/Everyone do or does?

This is silly, I just had a conversation with a friend of mine, and I just can't figure it out, 'cause everyone IS working, or everyone does like me sounds good, but if you think about it it should be do. Which one is it?
  

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Hi, I'd say " everybody/everyone does " and " everybody/everyone is ". ) These indefinite pronouns are grammatically singular but notionally plural . Both everybody and everyone as subjects agree regularly with their singular verbs: Everybody is expected for dinner .

— Tanit

  • Hi, I'd say " everybody/everyone does " and " everybody/everyone is ".
  • ) These indefinite pronouns are grammatically singular but notionally plural .
  • Both everybody and everyone as subjects agree regularly with their singular verbs: Everybody is expected for dinner .
  • But with subsequent pronouns they may take either the singular his or her or the notionally plural their: Everyone is to bring his or her [their] calculators.
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Hi,

I'd say "everybody/everyone does" and "everybody/everyone is".

From The Columbia Guide to Standard American English:

everybody, everyone (prons.) These indefinite pronouns are grammatically singular but notionally plural. Both everyb
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Hi,

i would also say "Everyone does", "Everyone has", Everyone is", coz everyone is a singular word...

Cheers!! Sonia
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Hi. What do you it should be when each person has to bring a calculator for him or herself? Could it be "Everyone is to bring his or her [their] calculator" (in singular)? Also shouldn't the word "Everyone" be two separate words - "Every one"? Thank you in advance.

Sentence from The Columbia Guide to Standard American English:

Everyone is to bring his or her [their] calcu
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What do you it should be when each person has to bring a calculator for him or herself? Could it be "Everyone is to bring his or her [their] calculator" (in singular)?-- Yes

Also shouldn't the word "Everyone" be two separate words - "Every one"? -- No. Everyone is a personal pronoun referring to humans ('Everyone was happy at the party.'). 'Every one' refers to a
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Do you say... Does every person ...? or Do every person?

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What is correct--everybody says Amen...or

everybody say Amen

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Hey every one the secret to life is every one who is alive lives the same life and we all need to be free and happy never killing but doing what makes us happy life needs to thrive and grow every where that's when we all live in heaven here on earth is possible if we all remember death is not real only life is so strive for that be free and abolish all religion for this is gods intent.

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