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When considering the word everyone, it makes sense to think of many people in a group. The natural conclusion then is to believe everyone is plural. It’s not. Everyone is singular.
One way to think about it is that everyone refers to each individual in a group.
Take this example:
Everyone who is attending the Ice Creams of the World festival likes ice cream.
It would be odd for a person who loathes ice cream to go to a festival celebrating that dessert, so it’s safe to say each individual person in that group enjoys it.
Because everyone is singular, it takes a singular verb. Look again at our example sentence above. The verb in it is “likes,” which is singular and would be used with singular pronouns, such as “he” and “she.”
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Here are more examples:
Everyone dances uniformly in ballet class.
Everyone under five eats free.
Everyone needs to file the form in triplicate.
Each sentence has a singular verb because everyone is a singular pronoun.
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Hi Erin
Do some people really think “everyone” would be followed by “are”? I can’t say that’s a mistake I’ve ever seen as a copywriter or editor. “Everyone are coming to my party tonight?” Sorry, don’t think that’s a common one! (Nor is “everything are…”)
But what you might want to blog about along similar lines, though, is “none” followed by “is” rather than “are”. I know you’ll know the reason, so I’ll leave you to explain it to the uninitiated.
All the best
Ashley
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Hi Erin
Do some people really think “everyone” would be followed by “are”? I can’t say that’s a mistake I’ve ever seen as a copywriter or editor. “Everyone are coming to my party tonight?” Sorry, don’t think that’s a common one! (Nor is “everything are…”)
But what you might want to blog about along similar lines, though, is “none” followed by “is” rather than “are”. I know you’ll know the reason, so I’ll leave you to explain it to the uninitiated.
All the best
Ashley
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