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Dear techers
A Everyone has done their homework.
a Everyone has done his (or her?) homework.
B I don't understand nothing.
b I don't understand anything.
C Me and my friends went to see a movie last night.
c My friends and I went to see a movie last night.
I have heard people say all of those above. But there is probably something tricky about those examples.
As for A and a, I still don't know which one is not ok.
Would saying any of those sentences above make you sound less educated?
NOT A TEACHER
1.
Every / everybody / everyone / everything are singular words, so we use a singular verb.
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But we use they/them/their after everybody/everyone:
- Everybody said they enjoyed themselves (=everybody enjoyed himself or herself)
(English Grammar in Use - Raymond Murphy)
2.
- I don't understand nothing. Double negation. Many people object to this construction.
- I don't understand anything. OK.
3.
- Me and my friends went to see a movie last night. Possible, but it's rather informal.
- My friends and I went to see a movie last night. OK.
Some of these non-standard yet common usages do indeed grate my ears, but objectively I accept them as possible and natural within certain contexts. In fact, as for 2., English has been moving in and out of a double negative, along with French, for many centuries (just read Chaucer and you'll see lots of "ne" along with other negated verbs).