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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