Can you please correct me...Everyone...Everybody.... Anyone....Anybody

[D&T]

Everyone has had have?

Everybody has had have?

Anyone has had have

Anybody has had have

Please use in sentence to help me TIA

I''m not embarrassed to say that English is NOT my forte... and if I post on your thread with grammatical mistake...eeeekkk, I''m getting more and more self conscious about it too

Apparently I fnd myself mis using these words frequently

 

[sunnyd]

None of those usages would be correct. What are you trying to say?

 

[VRBeauty]

Generally -- I'd go with everyone has... treating everyone as a singular noun. But... it can be complicated:

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/indefinite-pronouns.aspx

Examples:

everyone has an equal chance
everyone had a good time
Where is everybody going?

 

[TravelingGal]

All can be correct.

- Everyone has a bad day once in a while.
- Everyone had a piece of gramma''s pie.
- Does everyone have a piece of gramma''s cake?

I think that''s what you are asking anyway...

 

[D&T]

Date: 12/18/2009 1:14:02 PM
Author: TravelingGal
All can be correct.

- Everyone has a bad day once in a while.
- Everyone had a piece of gramma''s pie.
- Does everyone have a piece of gramma''s cake?

I think that''s what you are asking anyway...

Yes Yes, this is exactly what I need to see...

I get all confuse when I try to use EveryBODY or AnyBODY or SomeBODY "Body" in the word

. Thanks for helping out EVERYONE?! or EVERYBODY

VR- Thank you for the link. I''ll check that out as well.

 

[Haven]

Hi, D&T!

First of all, please don''t be embarrassed about making mistakes.

Here''s some info:

- Everyone and everybody are interchangeable.
- Anyone and anybody are also interchangeable.
- These words (everyone/everybody/anyone/anybody) are indefinite pronouns. These words are all considered to be singular. This means that you use the singular form of the verb for these words. (Correct: Everyone is happy. Incorrect: Everyone are happy.)

As for using the correct verb tense for has/have/had:
You typically use these words to indicate time.
- Simple Present: They walk
- Present Perfect: They have walked; he has talked
- Simple Past: They walked
- Past Perfect: They had walked
- Future: They will walk
- Future Perfect: They will have walked

The OWL at Purdue has a great tutorial about verb tenses. I lifted the tense examples above from this tutorial.

 

[TravelingGal]

Date: 12/18/2009 1:19:13 PM
Author: Haven
Hi, D&T!

First of all, please don''t be embarrassed about making mistakes.

Here''s some info:

- Everyone and everybody are interchangeable.
- Anyone and anybody are also interchangeable.
- These words (everyone/everybody/anyone/anybody) are indefinite pronouns. These words are all considered to be singular. This means that you use the singular form of the verb for these words. (Correct: Everyone is happy. Incorrect: Everyone are happy.)

As for using the correct verb tense for has/have/had:
You typically use these words to indicate time.
- Simple Present: They walk
- Present Perfect: They have walked; he has talked
- Simple Past: They walked
- Past Perfect: They had walked
- Future: They will walk
- Future Perfect: They will have walked

The OWL at Purdue has a great tutorial about verb tenses. I lifted the tense examples above from this tutorial.

And this is why English has got to be one of the most difficult languages to learn. I taught TOEFL for awhile, and OMG, it was really hard to say "these are the rules, and here are all the exceptions to the rules!"

 

[Haven]

It is terribly difficult, TGal. I''ve been speaking it all my life and I still don''t have it all worked out.

 

[Rock_of_Love]

Date: 12/18/2009 12:51:25 PM
Author:D&T
Everyone has had have?

Everybody has had have?

Anyone has had have

Anybody has had have

Please use in sentence to help me TIA

I''m not embarrassed to say that English is NOT my forte... and if I post on your thread with grammatical mistake...eeeekkk, I''m getting more and more self conscious about it too

Apparently I fnd myself mis using these words frequently

You can use them all, in different ways. I''m sure the actual rules are in one of the links. Here are some sentences...

Everyone has fun when they go to the park.
Everyone had fun at the park.
Doesn''t everyone have fun at the park?

You can replace "everybody" with "everyone" above.

I feel like I see "anyone" or "anybody" used in questions often, or in strong statements. You can use "anybody" and "anyone" interchangeably.

Does anyone have my diamond?
Has anyone seen my diamond?
If anyone has my diamond, I''m going to kick your butt!
If anyone had my diamond at some point today, I''m going to kick your butts, too!

Is this what you are asking?

 

[Rock_of_Love]

LOL! As I was composing my post, others beat me to it!!! Sorry for the repeat!

 

[D&T]

Date: 12/18/2009 1:19:13 PM
Author: Haven
Hi, D&T!

First of all, please don''t be embarrassed about making mistakes.

Here''s some info:

- Everyone and everybody are interchangeable.
- Anyone and anybody are also interchangeable.
- These words (everyone/everybody/anyone/anybody) are indefinite pronouns. These words are all considered to be singular. This means that you use the singular form of the verb for these words. (Correct: Everyone is happy. Incorrect: Everyone are happy.)

As for using the correct verb tense for has/have/had:
You typically use these words to indicate time.
- Simple Present: They walk
- Present Perfect: They have walked; he has talked
- Simple Past: They walked
- Past Perfect: They had walked
- Future: They will walk
- Future Perfect: They will have walked

The OWL at Purdue has a great tutorial about verb tenses. I lifted the tense examples above from this tutorial.

Thank you Haven! seriously I seem to take a while to think about these words many times a day and it''s driving me nuts!

 

[D&T]

Thank you to all of you! I really do appreciate you taking the time to help a fellow PSers'' with her grammar issues. I should have paid attention in school more closely

 

[D&T]

Date: 12/18/2009 1:25:28 PM
Author: Rock_of_Love
LOL! As I was composing my post, others beat me to it!!! Sorry for the repeat!

don''t be sorry for the repeat. Seeing it more often and repeating it actually helps

 

[sunnyd]

Oh I get it now!

I thought you were trying to make a sentence with everyone, has, had and have! Whoopsie, sorry!

 

[D&T]

Date: 12/18/2009 1:24:37 PM
Author: Rock_of_Love

used in questions often, or in strong statements. You can use ''anybody'' and ''anyone'' interchangeably.

Does anyone have my diamond?
Has anyone seen my diamond?
If anyone has my diamond, I''m going to kick your butt!
If anyone had my diamond at some point today, I''m going to kick your butts, too!

Is this what you are asking?

lol... I love how diamond is involved here

 

[D&T]

Date: 12/18/2009 1:31:12 PM
Author: sunnyd
Oh I get it now!

I thought you were trying to make a sentence with everyone, has, had and have! Whoopsie, sorry!

no worries Sunny...lol I was not clear, thought you all could read my mind

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 12/18/2009 1:30:15 PM
Author: D&T
Thank you to all of you! I really do appreciate you taking the time to help a fellow PSers'' with her grammar issues. I should have paid attention in school more closely

D&T
no worry...i have the worst spelling/grammar here.

worst or worse ??

 

[Haven]

Date: 12/18/2009 2:50:46 PM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 12/18/2009 1:30:15 PM
Author: D&T
Thank you to all of you! I really do appreciate you taking the time to help a fellow PSers'' with her grammar issues. I should have paid attention in school more closely

D&T

no worry...i have the worst spelling/grammar here.

worst or worse ??

Aww, DFire, don''t worry. We all understand you!

Worse is a comparative, so you use is to compare two things.
Example: Some people mistakenly believe that an I colored diamond is worse than a G colored diamond.

Worst is a superlative, so you use it to compare three or more things.
Example: The third stone is the worst of the bunch because it has the most leakage.

 

[Porridge]

Don''t worry D&T your English is very good! I don''t notice many mistakes at all.

I think everyone/body and anyone/body are slightly different. For example "has everyone seen this movie?" and "has anyone seen this movie?" are different. In the first, I''m confirming that everyone in the group has seen it, in the second, I''m asking if anyone in the group has seen it. "Every" is more addressing the group as a whole, while "any" is a little more of a individual.

Oh man, I don''t envy you having to learn all this crap! English is so complicated!!

 

[D&T]

Date: 12/18/2009 2:50:46 PM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 12/18/2009 1:30:15 PM
Author: D&T
Thank you to all of you! I really do appreciate you taking the time to help a fellow PSers'' with her grammar issues. I should have paid attention in school more closely

D&T
no worry...i have the worst spelling/grammar here.

worst or worse ??

oh no, another word that I hadn''t noticed before, now I''m going to be conscious of it

DF- I totally understand you

Thanks buddy!

Porridge, aww thanks sweetie!

Totally makes sense what you wrote

.... for now then I overanalyze.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

English really is tough to learn! It has more exceptions to rules than any other language.

If it makes you feel better, my dad to this day still uses "erotic" and "exotic" interchangeably

He once told my middle school teacher that I would love to go to Egypt because I thought it would be erotic.

My mom taught me the word "organism" was pronounced without the "ni", so in biology class I read a passage stating that "an amoeba is a one celled orga*m".

My dad also used to tell people he loved to each leeches in the summer (mispronounced Lychee).

I have a million of these, seriously.

 

[Smo]

Date: 12/18/2009 6:15:02 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade
English really is tough to learn! It has more exceptions to rules than any other language.

If it makes you feel better, my dad to this day still uses ''erotic'' and ''exotic'' interchangeably

He once told my middle school teacher that I would love to go to Egypt because I thought it would be erotic.

I just choked on my coffee! That is hilarious!

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 12/18/2009 3:27:03 PM
Author: Haven

Date: 12/18/2009 2:50:46 PM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 12/18/2009 1:30:15 PM
Author: D&T
Thank you to all of you! I really do appreciate you taking the time to help a fellow PSers'' with her grammar issues. I should have paid attention in school more closely

D&T

no worry...i have the worst spelling/grammar here.

worst or worse ??

Aww, DFire, don''t worry. We all understand you!

Worse is a comparative, so you use is to compare two things.
Example: Some people mistakenly believe that an I colored diamond is worse than a G colored diamond.

Worst is a superlative, so you use it to compare three or more things.
Example: The third stone is the worst of the bunch because it has the most leakage.

Haven
do teachers ever use the wrong words?

 

[Haven]

Date: 12/18/2009 6:43:40 PM
Author: Dancing Fire
Haven
do teachers ever use the wrong words?

In my case? Yes. Frequently.