I have the following sentence: In fact, to catch someone's eye is an idiom, not eyes. the question is not about everyone being singular or plural. Are the words everyone and everybody singular or plural?
The indefinite pronoun 'everyone' is a singular pronoun that takes a singular verb.examples: An example would be it flew over everyone's heads, or it flew over everyone's head. Everyone who is coming will receive a gift.
The possessive of everyone is everyone's, in the same way the possessive of everybody is everybody's. In my experience, the spelling checkers get confused by contractions. There is a comprehensive article on the topic on grammar girl: The indefinite pronoun 'everyone' is a singular pronoun.
May i have everyone's attention,. Should it be everyone's, everyones' or everyones? Your deduction, that not everybody's cup of tea means not to everyone's liking, is absolutely correct. The expression commonly used in both the affirmative and negative.
There are actually two issues concerning this topic: Unless of course youβre a buddhist or a cat, in which case everyone has multiple lives and both would be correct, depending on context. Joe got everyone's attention and started to speak. Would the noun following everyone's be plural?