nobody misunderstand v nobody misunderstands

[Odessa Dawn]

It was Abbas’ way of escaping forward. He needed to quell the mounting anger and resentment of his lacking leadership. His message targeted and continues to be aimed at dual audiences: Palestinians, thus the word “resistance” and international, thus ‘non-violence’ and “so that nobody misunderstand us.”


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Then we have

Even today, in those parts of central India, things are not contemporary, they are at least two thousand years old. Nobody has much to do. Everybody seems to have enough time to loaf around. I really mean that everybody is a loafer. I simply mean the literal meaning, not any association that has arisen about the word. So, all the “loafers” were there. Please write the word in inverted commas so nobody misunderstands.

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Which one satisfies English grammar rule?

[5jj]

Which do you think does?

[Odessa Dawn]

The second one because nobody being used in an example right here followed by was; nobody pronoun, n - definition in American English Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary Online

[5jj]

Yes