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Bookmark or Share- grammar - use of "everything" or "anything" in positive and negative ...Everything is not always positive in meaning, but it means everything. Anything is in arbitrary subset of everything. In the negative sense, "we can't do everything " means it's not possible to do all things, but you can still do something.
- "Everything's coming up X"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeExpressions of the form "everything's coming up X" almost certainly owe their existence to the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from the musical Gypsy (1959). Whether it, in turn, was influenced by the earlier expression "come out [or up] smelling like roses [or a rose]" is less clear, but it doesn't seem far-fetched to me.
- “Everything is not…” - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeI keep hearing people say everything is not… which frustrating because it is ambiguous. It could mean either. Nothing is… (for the set of all things, no thing is…) or . Not everything is… (for the set of all things, some things are not…/not all things are…) I have been hearing it more and more in the past few years.
- grammar - Difference between "anything" and "everything" - English ...1. I was unaware of everything that happened that night. Does not say the same as: I wasn’t aware of anything that happened that night. Everything and anything are not opposites, or antonyms. Nor are they synonyms. The two sentences convey two different, but not completely different, notions. "I was unaware of everything" means the person did ...
- word choice - Whatever/everything/anything..how to find out? - English ..."Everything" is used only when you mean "everything", or "a lot of things" E.g.: "Stop doing everything I do!" "Everything" doesn't necessarily mean absolutely everything, but most of the things. So, "whatever" and "anything" are used when referring to singular entities, while "everything" is for multiple entities.
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