Sunday, July 29, 2012

grammatical number - Is "everyone" singular or plural?




Which is correct?




Everyone were convinced that he would go to the game.
Everyone was convinced that he would go to the game.




I think it's "was", because "everyone" is singular, but I just wanted to check.


Answer



Everyone agrees that everyone is singular and therefore singular verb forms agree with everyone.



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