Practice English in Mylot

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Skill 23: Make verbs agree after certain words

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

Everybody are going to the theater.

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

SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT AFTER CERTAIN WORDS

These words or expressions are grammatically singular, so they take singular verbs:

anybody everybody nobody somebody each (noun)
anyone everyone no one someone every (noun)
anything everything nothing something

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