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