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- Is there any difference between anyone and any one?
"The two-word form any one is not the same as the one-word form anyone and the two forms cannot be used interchangeably Any one means ‘any single (person or thing)’, as in: not more than twelve new members are admitted in any one year " Meanwhile, the one word form anyone is defined as follows: anyone Line breaks: any¦one Pronunciation
- meaning - What is the difference between anyone and everyone in . . .
How to use anyone and everyone as they are typically used in English Everyone means all of the group Anyone means all or any part of the group Original example “Everyone is welcome to do such and such” means all are welcome “Anyone is welcome to do such and such” means all or any part is welcome
- 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?
- grammaticality - Anyone of v s Anybody from - English Language . . .
The first problem is that you seemed have assumed that "Anyone or anybody of from" is the collocation It is not The collocations are "Anyone [of from NP]" and "Anybody [of from NP] " Because of the influences of Norman French on English, the adjuncts have an overlap in nuance and modify "anyone anybody" -- of = associated with; from
- 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 –
- 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)
- Use have or has any anyone anything in the question?
But anyone is syntactically singular, so Has anyone seen it? is natural, not *have anyone seen it? (Anyone is not necessarily singular in meaning, so the answer might refer to one person or several) (I have left out of you because *anyone of you is not idiomatic Any one of you is idiomatic, but that means specifically just one of you )
- 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
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