Everyone – Everybody - Everything

In combination with –one, –body and –thing, the pronoun every forms the following compounds: everyone, everybody and everything. They are all used as substantives only and take a singular verb. Everyone and everybody refer to persons, while everything refers to things:

• Everybody knows he's a miser.

• Everyone wants to meet him.

• Everything is good in its season, [a proverb]

Everyone and everybody can be used in the genitive case, whereas everything is invariable:

• Everybody's business is nobody's business, [a proverb]

• She's sure of everyone's consent.

• Everyone's eyes swept to the window.

Other

Other is used as a determiner and a substantive. As a determiner, it is invariable and occurs with plural count nouns to mean 'additional', 'remaining':

• How many other brothers have you?

• I had few friends those days, for I was occupied with other things.

• Other horses were exercising on the sand tract, more joining the circuit or leaving it.

• I have no other friends but you.

Other can also mean 'an alternative', 'besides this/these':

• Have you got any other boots, or are these the only ones?

• Put on some other clothes, will you?

The combination of other with the definite article modifying a singular count noun means 'the second of the two':

• He suddenly saw his mother on the other side of the street.

• We walked to the other end of the garden in silence.

• Before pulling on the other glove she paused and gave me a quick smile.

The other modifying a plural noun means 'the rest', 'the remaining':

• The other tourists remained in the camp.

• Jack was standing by the window with a glass in his hand; the other guests had gone.

As a substantive, other has the plural form others and the genitive form other's (others'); the meaning of the substantive other is much the same as that of the determiner. Normally, other (s) is only used alone if it refers back to a noun that has been mentioned before:

• The bar was kept by two very nice girls, one of them American, the other English.

• These shoes are too small. Have you got any others?

• One of my sisters' husband is an accountant, the other's is a bank officer.

An exception is the common plural use of (the) others to mean '(the)

other people':

• She never thinks of others.

• I must consult the others.

USAGE NOTES

(a) Note that other is not used as an adjective to mean 'different':

• I'd rather have a completely different colour.

• You look quite different without your eyeglasses.

(b) Note the use of the other to express contrast in the correlative construction:

• One went this way, the other that way.

(c) Note the idiomatic use of other in:

• I saw him the other day. [= a few days ago]

• He must have eaten something or other which upset his stomach.

• He'll find some idiot or other to do it for him as usual.

• I don't want you to be other than you are.

Another

Another is one word; it is invariable in form and can be thought of as a combination of two determiners: the indefinite article and other. As a determiner, it occurs with singular count nouns to mean 'an additional, extra':

• Will you have another cup of tea?

• I'd like to have another talk with your sister.

• He's written another book on ants.

It can also mean '(an) alternative', 'besides this':

• Take this cup away and bring me another one.

• Show me another hat. I don't like this one.

Another can, however, occur before a plural noun with few or any cardinal number, as well as dozen and score, to mean '(that number) more':

• We'll have to wait another few weeks.

• I need another five pounds.

• What fine eggs! Let's take another dozen!

Another is mainly used alone to refer to a previously mentioned noun or express contrast:

• This skirt is too tight, try another.

• One would blame him, another would excuse him.

USAGE NOTE

Note the idiomatic use of another:

• Ask me another! [ = I don't know]

• Tell me another![= I simply can't believe you (rather old–fashioned)]

• You're another![an expression used as a reply to show that the accusation just made of someone else applies to the first speaker also: I think Jim's rather a fool! – Yes, and you 're another!]

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