Everyone\everybody plural or singular?

A persuasive reply from The Beatles:

'Everybody'S got something to hide, except for me and my monkey'...
'Everyone SMILES as you drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly high'...

Singular!

-Everybody needs somebody to love. Do you need anybody? I need somebody to love. Beatle's song. If you have any problems just play it again, Sam. It works miracles. Hope it helps.

Just for a laugh...
Is the sentence "Paul McCartney is a Beatle" grammatically correct, or not?

Rommie
(Just playing. I already know the answer).

Yeah, he sang Casablanca. LOl.

Rommie, in my oppinion, it's rude to cut the last letter from The Beatles, for the word starts to look castrated. So I wouldn't do it.

A 'beatle' is also associated with 'beetle' or 'beatnik'. Sir Paul is definitely neither an insect, nor a hippie at the moment.

Fair enough. Well said.

Plural proper nouns in general shouldn't me made singular, so "A Canary Island", "A Spice Girl", etc., would all be wrong.

Sorry for the tease,
Rommie

Thanks for your musical comments...
"Black bird flies into the night..."

I was taught that everyone and everybody are both singular nouns, singling out one person in a group to be the subject of the sentence.

It is not so much singling out one as the subject, but that the group as a unit is treated singularly. So you could take one out of the group, apply a verb to him, and that verb could truthfully be applied to anyone in that group.

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