Word Usage – ‘Everyone’ vs ‘Everybody’ in a Sentence?
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When can I use everyone, or everybody in a sentence?
Best Answer
Both the words mean "every person; all people." You can use one, or the other, depending on your preference; at the end, the sentence would not get a different meaning.
OP's second version is not standard English usage. Simplifying slightly...
1: John is interested in baseball (standard phrasing: John finds baseball interesting)
2: *John has interest in baseball (completely unacceptable)
3: John has an interest in baseball (valid, but relatively uncommon)
4: John has interests in baseball (see note below)
Note - #4 is a completely different usage to #1, relating to senses 2, 3, 4 here It would normally be understood as meaning John gains financial or other benefits from baseball. But #3 could be used with either of senses #1 or #4, so it's probably best avoided unless the context makes everything clear.
Their meaning is almost identical; but not exactly. "Everybody" is often used as a collective, i.e. it describes the whole group of people in question as one unit.
"I met everybody" would therefore be (a little more) correct in a situation where the speaker has met the whole group at the same time (at a party, say).
"Everyone" refers to the members of the group in question as seperate individuals.
"I met everyone" could imply that, over the course of a few days or weeks the speaker has managed to meet every single individual of the group.
Best Answer
Both the words mean "every person; all people." You can use one, or the other, depending on your preference; at the end, the sentence would not get a different meaning.