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Compound Confusion
Compound pronouns can be confusing. The choice between "everyone" or "every one" and "anyone" or "any one" can trip up even the most experienced writers.
Remember these rules: "Anyone" and "everyone" mean "any person" and "all the people," respectively. The non-compound modified pronouns "any one" or "every one" put greater emphasis on the word "one." Those phrases mean "any single person or thing" and "every single person or thing," and they're usually followed by a prepositional phrase that begins with the word "of."
Here are some examples:
- Did anyone hear from the customer? (any person)
- Did you reply to any one of those concerns? (any single concern)
- Is everyone ready to begin? (all the people)
- The boss rejected every one of the ideas. (every single idea)
Adapted from "Anyone and Everyone or Any One and Every One?" Common Mistakes and Tricky Choices, www.englishplus.com
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