Friday, October 19, 2018

Skill 12 : Agreement After Certain Words

Certain words in English are always grammatically singular , even though they might have plural meanings.

Everybody in the theater are watching the film attentively.

Even though , we understand from this example that a lot of people are watching the film, everybody is singular and requires a singular verb. The plural verb are watching should be changed to the singular verb is watching.

The following chart lists the grammatically singular words that plural meanings.
Subject/Agreement After Certain Words
These words or expressions are grammatically singular, so they take singular verbs :
  • anybody
    anyone
  •  anything
  • everybody
  • everyone
  • everything
  • nobody
  • no one
  • nothing
  • somebody
  • someone
  • something
  • each + noun
  • every + noun

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