eve|ry|bod|y

eve|ry|bod|y
eve|ry|bod|y «EHV ree BOD ee», pronoun.
every person; everyone: »

Everybody likes the new principal.

Usage everybody. The pronoun everybody is grammatically singular: »

Everybody was thrilled when our troops marched past.

In informal speech, everybody is sometimes used as a collective. A verb immediately following is usually singular, but a pronoun referring back to it from a little distance is likely to be plural: »

Everybody dresses in their best clothes.

To make such expressions conform to formal written usage, it is often better to change the everybody to a more accurate plural or collective than to change the later pronoun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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