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shvetsov2005
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 Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:29 am Post subject: additional "s" |
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Someone badmouths someone, and everyone else sticks together.
that is an extract from Harvard Business review. Shouldn't it be "everyone else stick together" as it's plural?
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lotus
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Hi shvetsov2005,
Everyone is singular (every individual one). The English indefinite pronoun can be tricky. Here is a link about indefinite pronouns.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/dante/grammar3.htm
By the way, the opposite can just be as tricky.
No one was hungry.
None of them were hungry.
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