This is silly, I just had a conversation with a friend of mine, and I just can't figure it out, 'cause everyone IS working, or everyone does like me sounds good, but if you think about it it should be do. Which one is it?
Hi,
I'd say "everybody/everyone does" and "everybody/everyone is".
From The Columbia Guide to Standard American English :
I'd say "everybody/everyone does" and "everybody/everyone is".
From The Columbia Guide to Standard American English :
everybody, everyone (prons.) These indefinite pronouns are grammatically singular but notionally plural. Both everybody and everyone as subjects agree regularly with their singular verbs: Everybody is expected for dinner. But with subsequent pronouns they may take either the singular his or her or the notionally plural their: Everyone is to bring his or her [their] calculators.
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i would also say "Everyone does", "Everyone has", Everyone is", coz everyone is a singular word...
Cheers!! Sonia
Sentence from The Columbia Guide to Standard American English:
Everyone is to bring his or her [their] calculators
Also shouldn't the word "Everyone" be two separate words - "Every one"? -- No. Everyone is a personal pronoun referring to humans ('Everyone was happy at the party.'). 'Every one' refers to all of a collection of things or people ('Your room is a mess. Pick up every one of your toys, please.' 'Everyone was happy at the party because every one of them was drunk.)
Sentence from The Columbia Guide to Standard American English: Everyone is to bring his or her (formal) [their (informal)] calculators
Do you say... Does every person ...? or Do every person?
Use 'does'.
But more natural is everybody or everyone.
What is correct--everybody says Amen...or
everybody say Amen
In what sentence? Both are possible.