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Cavalier King Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

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"Everyone" takes a singular verb but a plural pronoun.
  

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Hi Precisely. ('They' is a plural pronoun) Prajwal

  • Hi Precisely.
  • ('They' is a plural pronoun) Prajwal
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Hi

Precisely.

Everyone loves Mainak.("everyone" is singular and thus takes a singular verb, loves.)
They also like Prajwal.('They' is a plural pronoun)

Prajwal
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Are you referring to a sentence such as: Everyone should bring their book to class.

Yes, nowadays that is the practice.

Until the 1960's, the "rule" was usually to say "his book," referring to males and females. But in the 1960's, society changed in many ways. So in order to show that women were equal to men, people started to say something like:
Everybody shou

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