Difference between everyone / everybody?

Question

Hi !
Can someone (somebody ? :o) explain the difference between:

1. everyone and everybody ?
2. anyone/anybody ?
3. someone/somebody?
4. everything, something and anything ?

I already checked in my dictionary but it seems there's no different meaning.

thanks!

Answer 1

There is no difference between everybody and everyone. They both refer to all the people in the group. If you want to refer to each person that makes up the group, you would say every one (with a space).

Answer 2

I can only answer #4.
Everything is ALL the things in the room for example
Something is ONE thing in the room for example

Answer 3

Anyone/Everyone may refer to where you know all or most of the people present.

Anybody/Everybody where you don't know all of them.

For example: Did anyone go? - did people you know go?. Did anybody go? - implying asking if there were people there at all regardless of who they were.

Answer 4

the first three are all the same, but the last one is different.

"everything, something and anything ?"
1. everything = includes all things e.g. "everything is good."
2. something = only one thing. e.g. "something is wrong with my soup."
3. anything = only one thing, but used in a question. e.g. "is anything wrong with the soup?"

Answer 5

Congratulation to you,now you know the difference, Take Care.

Answer 6

I have thought and thought hard and can think of no instances where one would sound right and the other wrong, so I guess they are interchangeable.

Answer 7

Good dictionary and good for you. Now you know.

Answer 8

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