By Singular verbs, Negatives

Anonymous wrote:Interesting...When used as a pronoun, either is normally singular and takes a singular verb: The two surgeons disagree with each other more than either does (not do) with the pathologist. But when either is followed by of and a plural noun, it is often used with a plural verb:...

Clive wrote:1. Questions with negative words like nobody or nothing use positive tags. 2. Although words like nobody and somebody use a singular verb ('was' in your example), a plural pronoun is commonly used to refer to them. Thus, what we say as a tag is this. Nobody was expecting that,...

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. I've got a question about tag questions.A tag question is for ex. "You don't go home, do you ?" or "It is strange, isn't it ?"How do you form a tag question if the subject is a pronoun like nobody or somebody ?Nobody was expecting that, wasn't ______ ....? ...he ? it...

Hi, 1. Which one is right or are they both right? Everything went smooth. Everything went smoothly. In your example, you need the adverbial form. 'Smoothly' modifies 'went', ie it describes the 'going', not 'everything'. However, consider 'When I fell and hit my head, everything went...