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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.

  • Uh, you can remember someone in 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 thes two words in requests and in offers.

  • So keep in mind these are two categories of questions that we request question or 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 Ah, 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 requests, 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 air used in negative statements, someone in somebody used in positive statements.

  • So this follows the same rules 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.

  • Um, we use anyone in 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 have 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 anyone 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.

  • Ah, 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.

  • Mount to everyone and everybody, Everyone and everybody.

  • Uh, this will follow kind of a different rules than someone on anyone.

  • We use everyone and everybody to refer to all people related to a situation or related to a group.

  • So this kid mean, Ah, class.

  • It could mean every person in an office that could mean in a city in a country, so it just depends on the group or the situation.

  • We use this word and we want to talk about all people related to that group or related to the situation.

  • So let's look at some examples.

  • Okay, 1st 1 everyone in our class graduated.

  • So here everyone in our class graduated were first 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 re union.

  • Ah, company re union.

  • 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 this 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 1st 2 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.

  • Are a quick overview to the difference between these two endings.

  • One and buddy, what is the difference here?

  • Really won 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 thes interchangeably.

  • Interchangeably means we can mix and match them.

  • We can choose which one we prefer.

  • So that means the meanings are the same.

  • Uh, like their purpose is the same.

  • It's just upto us to choose.

  • So why would we do this?

  • Why would we choose one word and not the other word?

  • Um, 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.

  • Someone 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 lice.

  • 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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