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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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everything

0is "everything" plural and would then need the verb in plural like "work" or "have"02br
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0 No. Absolutely not. 02i 02br 00CJ 0-

— CalifJim

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0 No. Absolutely not. It's always singular.02br
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01i00Everything work01b00s02b00 ...02i02br
01i00Everything ha01b00s02b00 ...02i02br
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0 Adding to CJ comment, 00everyone, anyone, and everything00 are all treated as singular and required the 3rd person rule. i.e. Everthing 00is working00 perfectly. 0-
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CalifJim No. Absolutely not. It's always singular.

Everything works ...
Everything has ...
CJ

Why is it always singular? When it means something plural... An explanation would be nice!

Is it because we're talking about every(single)thing specifically? So everything basically means every thin
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pleasehelpWhy is it always singular? When it means something plural... An explanation would be nice!
... would be nice, maybe, but there is no explanation -- nothing you might find very satisfactory, anyway.
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