everyone - everybody

You usually use everyone or everybody to refer to all the people in a particular group. There is no difference in meaning between everyone and everybody.

The police had ordered everyone out of the office.

There wasn't enough room for everybody.

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You can also use everyone and everybody to talk about people in general.

Everyone has the right to freedom of expression.

Everybody has to die some day.

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In conversation, everyone and everybody are sometimes used to mean `a lot of people'.

...the war that everyone had said could never happen.

`Do you know him at all?' —-`Everybody knows Lonnie.'

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After everyone or everybody you use a singular form of a verb.

Everyone wants to find out what is going on.

Everybody is selling the same product.

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◊ referring back

When you are referring back to everyone or everybody, you usually use `they', `them', or `their'.

Will everyone please carry on as best they can.

Everybody had to empty their purses.

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For a discussion of these uses, see entry at ↑ he - they.

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◊ 'every one'

Do not confuse everyone with every one. You use every one to emphasize that something is true about each one of the things or people you are mentioning.

He read every one of my scripts.

She turned her attention to her friends. Every one had had a good education.

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