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Besides, 'everyone' may be grammatically singular, but it is semantically plural and acts in plural ways in many contexts. Any anaphors applied to 'everyone', for example, must be plural ('Everyone said they agreed', not 'Everyone said *he/she/it agreed', which would make the pronoun non-anaphoric).
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/139484/is-it-everyones-life-or-everyones-lives
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a. Any anaphors applied to ‘everyone’, for example, must be plural.
b. Any anaphor applied to ‘everyone’, for example, must be plural. (My version)
In this case can (b) also be used? Does it practically mean the same as (a)?
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/139484/is-it-everyones-life-or-everyones-lives
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a. Any anaphors applied to ‘everyone’, for example, must be plural.
b. Any anaphor applied to ‘everyone’, for example, must be plural. (My version)
In this case can (b) also be used? Does it practically mean the same as (a)?
