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hi everybody my name is alicia in this
lesson i'm going to talk about the
difference between someone everyone and
anyone and somebody
anybody and everybody let's get started
by looking at the meanings of these
words and how we use them okay let's
begin with someone and somebody to begin
with
you can remember someone and somebody
and anyone and anybody follow very
similar rules as some and any if you've
seen the video on our channel talking
about some and any maybe you remember
the rules that i'm going to explain here
you can check that video for some extra
information about those grammar points
too so let's start with someone and
somebody we use someone and somebody
in positive statements so a simple
statement not a question in other words
when we make a positive statement we use
someone and somebody in that sentence
structure
we also use these two words in requests
and in offers so keep in mind these are
two categories of questions so a request
question or an offer question let's take
a look at some examples of this now
first of all
there's someone at the office so here
i've chosen someone there's someone at
the office this is a positive statement
so not a question just a statement it's
a positive here the next example can you
send someone to help me can you send
someone to help me
this is a request so a specific type of
question a request question can you send
someone to help me
the third example sentence is an offer
would you like to talk to somebody would
you like to talk to somebody so here we
have request offer positive statement we
can use someone or somebody in each of
these examples so i've used someone
someone and somebody here but actually
we can change
each of these to the other choice both
are fine in each of these example
sentences i'll talk more about the
difference between one and buddy a
little bit later for now however let's
move on to the difference between anyone
and anybody
okay so this is a key difference between
someone and somebody
anyone and anybody this is used in
negative statements these are used in
negative statements someone in somebody
used in positive statements so this
follows the same rule as some and any
so in negative statements and we use
anyone and anybody in information
questions so that means that not
requests not offers but you're looking
for some kind of information
we use anyone and anybody in these cases
so let's look at a few examples of this
first i don't think anyone is at the
office don't think anyone is at the
office so here we've used anyone because
it's a negative here's my negative it's
in the do not so not right here this is
my negative therefore i've used any one
here
one more example sentence a question
this time has anybody seen my keys here
i've used anybody
i've used this because this is an
information question i'm looking for
some information i don't have now this
is not a request it's not an offer so i
shouldn't use someone or somebody i need
to use anyone or anybody i'm looking for
information
this third example sentence is the same
why hasn't anyone returned my calls here
anyone
and i'm looking for information in this
case a why this is a why question so
again not a request not an offer i'm
looking to find something new i'm
looking for information so i should use
anyone again just as i talked about with
someone and somebody i can change this
anyone anybody and anyone to the other
word it's fine to use the other word
here for example anybody anyone anybody
that's perfectly fine again i'll explain
more a little bit later here but
remember
anyone and anybody is used in negative
statements someone somebody used in
positive statements this is one key
difference
okay but let's move along now to
everyone and everybody everyone and
everybody uh this will follow kind of a
different rule than someone uh and
anyone we use everyone and everybody to
refer to all people
related to a situation or related to a
group so this could mean a class it
could mean every person in an office it
could mean in a city in a country
so it just depends on the group or the
situation we use this word when we want
to talk about all people related to that
group or related to the situation so
let's look at some examples
okay first one
everyone in our class graduated so here
everyone
in our class graduated refers to all the
people in our class so
everyone in that group of people in this
case the group is the class so all
people in the class
another example it was great to see
everybody at the reunion so everybody
here
shows us again all people and this could
be
a class reunion it could be a family
reunion a company reunion
so this just means it was great to see
all the related people so the people
related to the situation at this reunion
event
one more example then
everybody had a great time so here
everybody shows us everybody in the
situation so maybe everybody who
attended the event had a great time
everybody who attended the party had a
great time this is quite a common
expression after an event of some kind
so again
as we saw with the first two groups we
can actually change each of these words
to the other word so everyone can be
replaced with everybody
same thing here everybody and everybody
can be replaced with everyone
so
i want to end this lesson with a quick
introduction
or a quick overview to the difference
between these two endings one and buddy
what is the difference here
really one the words that end in one
someone anyone and everyone
they sound more formal than the words
that end in buddy so
we can actually use these
interchangeably interchangeably means we
can mix and match them we can choose
which one we prefer so that means the
meanings are the same
like their purpose is the same it's just
up to us to choose so why would we do
this why would we choose one word and
not the other word
you can choose according to the
syllables if you remember syllables is
the number of beats a syllable is a beat
of a word so for example somebody
somebody has three beats some one has
only two beats two syllables
this is important when you are writing
especially like writing poetry
writing lyrics for music or maybe you're
trying to write a nice essay for example
we are listening for which words sound
nice to our ears so sometimes the word
somebody sounds nice sometimes the word
someone sounds better so it's up to us
meaning we can decide we can choose
which word we prefer to use so you just
have to listen and kind of feel which
you prefer there's no difference in
meaning it's just a sound preference and
a little bit of a formality difference
so i hope that this lesson helped you
understand the differences between these
words a little bit as i said if you want
some more information about the
difference between some and any you can
search the youtube channel for that
video as well
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lesson and we will see you again soon
bye
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