Can you complete please: Everyone speaks English well, ..............? (question tag)?

Answer 1

It's "don't they?"

Answer 2

Everyone speaks English, right?

Well, certainly not everyone speaks English. According to the CIA World Fact Book, only 5.6 % of the world's total population speaks English as a primary language. That number doubles when people who speak English as a second or third language are counted. By conservative estimates, that means that well over four-fifths of the world's population does not speak English.

It's true that English has become a global lingua franca over the past several decades; this fact, however, really should have little effect on your decision to learn a foreign language. The attitude that English alone is enough, in fact, creates self-imposed limitations. To remain monolingual is to stunt your educational development, to restrict your communication and thinking abilities, and to deny yourself the ability to fully appreciate and understand the world in which you live. Learning another language opens up new opportunities and gives you perspectives that you might never have encountered otherwise. Personal, professional, social, and economic considerations all point to the advantages of learning foreign languages. Still not convinced? Here are 10 very good reasons why you should be learning a foreign language:

Answer 3

Good question! This is a good example of the inconsistencies of grammatical rules, or rather of a double bind. According to the English grammar, "everyone" is singular ("everyone speaks [...]"). For the sake of the argument, let us bring in another example that requires the use of a possessive pronoun ("everyone brought HIS book[s]). Since the subject of the sentence is "everyone", the possessive adjective has to be "his", which is not only weird but also innacurate. Since "everyone" refers to more than one person, the "correct" possessive pronoun, according to the English grammar, should be "their" ("He brushes HIS teeth"/ "They brush THEIR teeth").

But there's another problem here. "Everyone", that is, "each one of these people" may have one book or more. Therefore, a sentence like "everyone brought his BOOK" has, certainly, a different meaning from "everyone brought his BOOKS". And "everyone brought their BOOKS" would be ambiguous, that is, it could mean that "each of those people has just one book" or "more than one".

As one can see, from the examples above, one rule ("tag-questions") contradicts the other ("possessive adjectives"). Why is that? Because the grammatical rule that considers "everyone" as a third person singular pronoun works only at the syntactical level. At the semantic level, it doesn't because "everyone" (despite being singular) refers to the plural (= more than one person).

Therefore, what seems to make more sense is SPOKEN English ("everyone brought THEIR books, didn't THEY?"/ "everyone speaks English well, DON'T THEY?). However, in writing, that is, in FORMAL LANGUAGE, we have to stick to what grammar says until grammarians from English-speaking countries all over the world decide to change it.

Answer 4

Everyone speaks English well, don't they?

Answer 5

Everyone speaks English well, don't they?

Answer 6

You have said it correctly... "Everyone speks English well"... that other part.. question tag is not understandable.. I do not know the meaning of the word TAG??

Answer 7

"Everyone speaks English well, except maged l"

LoL Just kidding.

I don't quite understand your question either though.

Answer 8

Can you complete please: Everyone speaks English well, right?

Answer 9

You are asking what exactly?