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Friday, November 14, 2014

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November 18, 2014  FACS - MOVED TO DECEMBER 16, 2014
November 20, 2014  Industrial Technology (Meeting will start at Lakeview Schools)
November 21, 2014  Community Ed
November 26, 2014  Superintendents' Council

December 2, 2014  Language Arts
December 4, 2014  World Languages
December 5, 2014  Social Studies

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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