Is it "Everyone has..."? or "?... have..."??

Is it "Everyone has..." or "... have..."?

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Kathie York

Queen of Non-Overwhelm | Goals achievement instructor | Author: "Welcome to Non-Overwhelm!" [ Non-OverwhelmBook.com ] | Founding member, John Espirian’s “Espresso+” community

发布日期: 2020年10月17日
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If you’ve followed along with the Quick Wins from the beginning, this is where it starts paying off!

In [QW1], we discussed a team is a collection of people making up:

  • A group
  • An entity (one – ‘it’).

The team has a chance to win.

It has a chance to win.

Although it usually refers to a large group, ‘everyone’ works the same way.

[QW6] Is it “Everyone has…” or “… have…”?

Everyone has a chance to win.

Has everyone reviewed the work?

I know everyone has a copy of the file.

You could replace ‘everyone’ with ‘it’ and still have viable sentences.

Weird sentences, but grammatically correct.  

So, there we go! I hope you found Quick Win 6 helpful.

Feel free to leave a comment (below) or email me about this Quick Win ([email protected]), especially if you need help with a ‘puzzler’ word or phrase. [No invoice]

These tiny primers are about word faux pas that can hurt our reputations with clients, potential clients, or that boss in the corner office at a day job.

This post originated, on October 17, 2020, on my website.

If you’d like to see the super-duper copy with an audio recording, go to:

 https://kathieyork.com/qw6-is-it-everyone-has-or-have/

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Let’s all learn from each other!

Kathie

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Kathie York, CSQE

Lead Writer

https://kathieyork.com/

“Where tech and text tech converge”

Gabriel A.?? Onyango

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Another one that perks up my ears is this: "an SEO agency went to the River.." Have always wondered what I'm missing here cause it's so common. I would assume " a SEO agency..." would be appropriate ('a' before a word that starts with a consonant and 'an' before a vowel). But it seems I'm wrong. Even typing this, Grammarly is already breathing down my neck

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