How to use anyone and everyone as they are typically used in english everyone means all of the group.
Anyone means all or any part of the group.
Original example everyone is welcome to.
Anyone can learn to dance if he or she wants to.
Resources online tell me that anyone is a singular indefinite pronoun.
Then why is it sometimes acceptable to use the plural 'they' with.
It's if anyone has, because anyone functions as third person singular.
It probably just seems right to use have because you would for any other number or person.
Use anyone when all elements of a group are involved, but you don't necessarily mean all of them.
So anyone can do it would mean that everybody in that group could do it, even though.
But anyone is syntactically singular, so has anyone seen it?
Is natural, not * have anyone seen it?.
(anyone is not necessarily singular in meaning, so the answer might refer to one person or.