来自VOA的[ Ask a Teacher ] Everyone and Every One (2021/9/24) 节选
Everyone和every one有什么区别?单独看这两个单词短语似乎很难区分,但是相信通过下面的讲解,以及看到用法,你会很容易分辨出来。起码,你做选择题不会错!
一、Everyone
1、It is a singular pronoun used when we talk about a group of people. Here is an example:
Danny brought enough birthday cake for everyone to eat.
(丹尼尔带了足够多的蛋糕给大家吃)
解答:
Everyone是一个单数代词,指代一群人的时候使用。我们完全可以用everybody代替everyone,这是一个检验你表达中的everyone是否用对的很好方法。
例:Everybody (everyone) gave money for Danny's birthday presents.
二、Every one
1、We use this expression to talk about the individuals or individual things in a group. The expression often follows a general statement and comes before the word "of." Returning to the birthday party, we can find this example:
Danny got six presents and every one of them made him smile.
(丹尼尔收到了6个礼物,每一个都让他开心地笑了起来)
解答:我们用every one来表达一个群体中的个人或者单个事物,这个表达经常跟在一般性描述之后,它的后面经常加“of”。
2、Note that we cannot use the singular pronouns "everyone" or "everybody" to talk about objects. We only use them for people. But we can use "every one" if we want to talk about people or things. For example:
At the end of the party, every one of the guests thanked Danny for inviting them.
(派对结束之后,每一个客人都感谢丹尼尔邀请了他们)
解答:注意我们不能用everyone或者everybody来表示物体,我们只用这两个词指代人。如果我们想讨论人或者物体,我们可以用every one。
everyone和every one的不同
三、everyone是单数还是复数?谓语动词用单数,代词用复数!非常容易错。
这里很多人会有疑问:everyone肯定是单数啊。
没错,我们都知道everyone是单数,但是当everyone当作一个句子的主语时,它却可以表示很多人,everyone后的代词可以用复数代词来替换.
例:
After everyone ate Denny’s birthday cake, they all said the cake was delicious.
(当所有人吃了丹尼尔的生日蛋糕以后,都夸奖蛋糕味道很好。)
这里的they是复数代词,是指代everyone,是一群人。
但是,如果everyone后面直接跟谓语动词,一定要用第三人称复数:
例:
Everyone was invited to Denny's birthday party.
(每一个人都被邀请来参加丹尼尔的生日派对)
再举一个例子:
Has everyone finished their drinks?
在非常正式的情况下才用单数,但是这样显得很臃肿:
Has everyone finished his or her drink?
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