you’re able to be excused for confusing every day with everyday or anyone with any one.
They sound the same, after all.
Should you use every day or everyday?
The thing to remember when choosing between everyday and every day is that everyday is an adjective.
- It means commonplace or ordinary and is used to describe a noun.
Example: She is wearing her everyday clothesa glitter tube top and satin hot pants.
Every day is phrase made up of an adjective and a noun.
The word every describes the word day, and together they mean each day.
Example: She wears those same platform sandals every day.
(It can only be used to describe people.)
Example: Has anyone seen my coke spoon?
Its usually followed by of.
Should you use everyone or every one?
Similar (but not identical, of course) rules apply to everyone and every one.
It is only used to refer to people.
Example: Everyone in Mr. Kotters classroom was growing bored of the grammar lessons, especially Barbarino.
Like any one, you usually follow every one with of.
Example:Every one of The Sweathogs failed the test, and Mr. Woodman was angry.
When every and one are apart, youre referring to individuals.
(I learned that fromgrammarly.com.)
But if you must employ that groovy new anytime, things will get more complicated.
and The guy with the Quaaludes should be here any time.
Im busy getting a man-perm.
Anytime is used as an adverb or a conjunction.
Adverb: Im ready to go to Studio 54 anytime.
Conjunction: Anytime you want learn to do macrame, give me a call.
Tips:
To see if youre using anytime as an adverb correctly, substitute another adverb, like now.
Any time you put a word like at in front of any time, it must be two words.
Somebody, anybody, everybody (scream!)
Somebody is an indefinite pronoun referring to a certain unspecified person.
Some body is a noun phrase referring to a certain unspecifiedbody.
Maybe a body of water.
Maybe a body of work.
Example: Somebody went to Platos Retreat to see some body.
The same basic rules apply to anybody, everybody and their respective phrases.
This one is a little less punishing, though.
Because somebody et al.
are used frequently, usually theyre the right choice.
How often are you writing about funerary practices or a lagoon, right?
So dont even try it, Bucko.
