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Mar 25, 2010 · "I recommend nobody have a check card, as they are easily duplicated" Much much rarer (as is the English subjunctive in the first place), and a bit forced even in my example, but certainly possible. In normal indicative speech, "nobody" is a singular 3rd person, so it is "has" expect under special conditions, which do exist.
Sep 21, 2023 · English (US - northeast) Sep 21, 2023. #7. knuckleboom said: "is" is correct and idiomatic. You can't say "Nobody...are allowed" no matter what comes in between. You can, if the sentence uses "nobody" to mean "no people". Of course, using "nobody" to mean "no people" might not be perfect English. But people say that.
Aug 8, 2009 · 2 is not ungrammatical, but it is an unusual thing to say and relies on the meaning of "one" as a singular number. "No one of them" is always singular; "none of them" can be either singular or plural: None of them is known to me. None of them are known to me. No one of them is known to me. [grammatical, with "one" being the singular number, but ...
Jun 11, 2012 · No. "Nobody" doesn't refer to the absence/negation of an individual ("he"): it means the absence/negation of the entire human race, so "do they" is preferable. However, you could possibly justify the use of "does he" if the remark was being addressed directly to a (male) individual in the first place. Or alternatively.
May 13, 2013 · In this statement there is an elision of "there", and of "who has", so it becomes: (There) ain't nobody (who's) got time for that. Note the double negative, which here ain't a positive but is just for emphasis of the negation,
Aug 5, 2006 · Nobody is third person singular so it conjugates as "he" or "she". he runs she needs nobody needs.. etc. I think you are confusing the "s" in need s as if the verb is plural, but is neither singular nor plural. here is the verb need: I need, you need, he/she need s, we need, you need, they need Hope this helps answer your question. You wrote it ...
Mar 25, 2006 · Nobody, like other indefinite pronouns, is frequently, though not without a tinge of guilt, followed by the plural pronouns they, them or their. For example, nobody wants to hear that their hero isn't a hero. This kind of construction, which is recorded in the OED from the C16th onward, seems likely to pass into unquestioned use in the C21st.
Jan 17, 2014 · Jan 17, 2014. #3. When you mean you're not a person of importance, which do you say?: (1) You're nobody. (2) You're a nobody. The second, but that's not quite the meaning. It doesn't mean "you're not a person of importance" (such as a public official). It means "you are of no importance at all".
Sep 21, 2012 · Please help with a question about present perfect and past tense. A: Don't worry. Nobody has seen it. B. Don't worry. Nobody saw it. I think A is correct. Because A, emphasises the reult that nobody knows. But I've heard a native speacker said B.
Apr 1, 2007 · Atlanta, Georgia USA. USA English. Apr 1, 2007. #3. The reason you would not say 'almost nobody' is that the word nobody has the meaning exactly zero people. It doesn't make sense to say almost exactly zero people. Before anyone enters a room and after everyone leaves a room there is nobody in the room.
