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  1. word choice - "Everyone" or "everybody" - English Language

    Also, everybody is used more often than everyone in spoken language, which makes sense if it's more informal. Having said this, it's absolutely fine to use either one.

  2. What possessive is used when "everybody" is the antecedent?

    Mar 3, 2018 · Is this sentence right? Everybody is wasting his time. Is his or its the possessive of everybody? Most people use his but in my opinion it should be its: Everybody is wasting its …

  3. grammatical number - Is "everyone" singular or plural? - English ...

    Are the words everyone and everybody singular or plural? And can I use a plural pronoun (such as their) to refer to these words? Grammarians actually agree that the words everyone and …

  4. word choice - Choosing between "everybody" and "everyone"

    Oct 26, 2011 · Welcome, everybody! Which is equivalent to, for example: Welcome, Janet! Without the comma as a sentence, it would be, for example: Janet, go and welcome …

  5. Which is correct? Everyone do or does [duplicate]

    Jun 16, 2022 · Everybody does this problem perfectly fine during the test. "Do" is usually used to form imperative sentences or commands, in this case do this problem, which is perfectly fine. …

  6. Is ‘Everybody’s cup of tea’ a well-used English idiom?

    Aug 10, 2011 · Without special needs for taking bother of consulting dictionaries, I can easily guess ‘not everybody’s cup of tea’ means ‘not everybody’s liking or taste, or not applicable to …

  7. Why is "everybody" singular? - English Language & Usage Stack …

    Jul 13, 2016 · The compound determinative "everybody" functions as determiner-head. The determinative base "every" has a distributive interpretation which is reflected in the singular …

  8. Everybody knows that [...] VS Everyone knows that [...] [closed]

    2 Everybody or everyone would normally have the third person for subject-verb agreement. So everybody or everyone knows is correct. As for the choice between everybody and everyone, …

  9. How to form the possessive case of indefinite pronouns?

    The possessive of everyone is everyone's, in the same way the possessive of everybody is everybody's. In my experience, the spelling checkers get confused by contractions.

  10. English idiom or proverb equivalent for "if everybody is doing it, I ...

    Nov 5, 2015 · Can somebody please help me by giving an English idiom or proverb equivalent for: If everybody is doing it, I will also do it.