Every can be followed by a plural noun when there is a number before that noun.

Count nouns can be separated into individual units and counted. They usually have both a singular and a plural form. Most English nouns are count nouns. However, a few countable nouns only have a plural form in English.

Plural Noun Rules

• To make regular nouns plural, add ‑s to the end.
• If the singular noun ends in ‑s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, or -z, add ‑es to the end to make it plural.
• In some cases, singular nouns ending in -s or -z, require that you double the -s or -z prior to adding the -es for pluralization.

Every, like each, is always used with a singular noun form and therefore with a singular verb form in English because we are counting the things or people that we are talking about separately one by one: Every child in the class plays a musical instrument. Every instrument belonging to the school is tuned regularly.

Everybody is a plural, it is indefinite pronoun. Hence, there’s no plural for everybody!

While using past tense ,we cannot use ‘were’ with ‘I’. In the same way, this rule also applies for ‘Everyone,Everybody, Somebody,Nobody,etc’. So, use ‘EVERYONE WAS’ every time when you are using past tense sentence. And ‘EVERYONE WERE’ for the probabilistic and wishing statements only.

Although “anybody” is in the third person singular, and hence the correct verb form used with it must contain an “s” (as in “anybody who has read the book …”), “have” in the situation described above is the only “correct” option. Why?

Everyone and everybody mean the same. Everyone is a little more formal than everybody. Everyone is used more in writing than everybody: She knew everybody in the room.

indefinite pronouns

But, the standard rule remains that everyone/everybody is a singular indefinite pronoun and it must be used with singular verb and pronoun….4) Everyone loves their job.

• In the first case everyone/everybody (indefinite ‘singular’ pronoun) uses singular verb .
• In the second case verb used is plural .

Re: Everyone’s faces/face light up. The second, because ‘everyone’ is singular.

In this case, I’d say you need the plural “faces”. As, presumably, we each have our own face, you are talking about many faces here. But it isn’t true that a plural subject requires a plural object. Many people could be acting on one thing.

‘They wash their face’ is not technically correct but is often used when the subject is just one person, but the gender is unknown or irrelevant. E.g. ‘when a person gets up in the morning, they usually wash their face.

1 face /ˈfeɪs/ noun. plural faces. 1 face. /ˈfeɪs/ plural faces.

1 nose /ˈnoʊz/ noun. plural noses. 1 nose. /ˈnoʊz/ plural noses.

Well, the plural of “boy” is “boys”, and to make the possessive of a plural, we just put an apostrophe after the final “s”. So we would say, “the boys’ bicycles“. B-O-Y-S, apostrophe. So, for example, “child”, singular, becomes “children”, plural.

noun, plural wives [wahyvz].