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Bookmark or Share- syntactic analysis - How to know when to use "someone" or "anyone ...Use "anyone" when all elements of a group are involved, but you don't necessarily mean all of them. So "anyone can do it" would mean that everybody in that group could do it, even though it doesn't take them all to do it.
- Is it correct to use "their" instead of "his or her"?Up until very recent times the natural answer would have been "Anyone who loves the English language should have a copy of this book in his bookcase", because "his" was also a gender-neutral pronoun. It turned out, however, that "his" could only function as a gender-neutral pronoun if it were a plot by the patriarchy or something, so we're in ...
- meaning - Difference between "anyone" and "everyone"? - English ..."Anyone" basically refers to any of the people in the classroom. Unless this is what the teacher wants (which is highly unlikely) usage of "anyone" is wrong in the 2nd sentence. ..... On the other hand, "everyone" refers to all of the people in the classroom and that seems to be more likely what teacher wants to refer to. –
- Anyone: ("they" or "he/she") why is it sometimes plural?Anyone can learn to dance if he or she wants to. Resources online tell me that anyone is a singular indefinite pronoun. Then why is it sometimes acceptable to use the plural 'they' with 'anyone' in some cases? Does it substitute and replace 'he/she'? note: this previous posts also says anyone is [singular]: "Anyone has" or "anyone have" seen them?
- word choice - Is there a subtle difference between "somebody" and ..."There is no significant difference between somebody and someone, anybody and anyone, everybody and everyone or nobody and no one. The -one forms are more common in writing; the -body forms are more frequent in speech in British English" [emphasis mine - Alex B.] (p. 548).
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