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Verig
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Sun, 07 Dec 03 05:40 PM
Could some native English speaker tell me if it's ok to say:
"Everyone else were sleeping.",
or should I say "Everyone else was sleeping."?
I know that every- words are treated as singular, but I'm not totally sure about was/were.
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whl626,
5 yr 337 days ago
Everyone ( was ) ![Smile [:)]](/emoticons/emotion-1.gif) Under no circumstance that everyone takes the verb to be ( were )
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Verig
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Mon, 08 Dec 03 09:28 AM
Good. There's one teacher who says they're interchangeable in cases like this. Sounded a bit odd to my ears, but when you start thinking about words too much...
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Affix
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Mon, 08 Dec 03 09:35 AM
I don't quite understand your sentence, Whl626.
Could you please rewrite it in a easier and detailed way???
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whl626
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Mon, 08 Dec 03 02:31 PM
I just mean that ' everyone ' ( is/ was )....
' Everyone ' can never be followed by a plural verb to be ( are/ were ).
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Affix,
5 yr 336 days ago
Now I understand, Thanx ![Embarrassed [:$]](/emoticons/emotion-10.gif)
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