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[Anonymous]

Which of these sentences is correct:
1-What he does for a living isn't difficult. Everybody can do that.
2-Everybody could have commited the murder.

 

[Tdol]

2's fine. I'd say 'anybody'in the first. ;-)

 

[navi tasan]

I thought it was the other way around!
Anybody could have committed the murder. We don't know who did.
Everybody could have committed the murder. We don't know who did.
Anybody can do that. (Come to think of it. This one is definitely correct.)
Everybody can do that. (Is this one wrong?)

 

[Casiopea]

Which of these sentences is correct:
1-What he does for a living isn't difficult. Everybody can do that.
2-Everybody could have commited the murder.

Both are correct. Context is missing. If you mean to say that only one person can do it or could have done it, then use 'anybody'.

'everybody' means, all bodies, every person in the group.
'anybody' means, one body, one person in the group.

 

[navi tasan]

By 2 I mean to say everybody is a suspect.
By 1 I mean to say that any single person, no matter who they are, can do that.

 

[Casiopea]

By 2 I mean to say everybody is a suspect.

2-Everybody could have commited the murder.

By 1 I mean to say that any single person, no matter who they are, can do that.

1-What he does for a living isn't difficult. Everybody can do that.

Let's look at sentence 2:

2a- Everyone (in this room) could have committed the murder. (All of you could have poisoned the victim.)

2b. Anyone (in this room) could have committed the murder. (One of you could have poisoned the victim.

Let's look a sentence 1:

1a- What he does for a living isn't difficult. Everybody(i.e. all of us) can do that.

1b- What he does for a living isn't difficult. Anybody (i.e. any one of us) can do that.

 

[shane]

Cas, that was such a good explanation, it was worth reading twice.

 

[Casiopea]

Cas, that was such a good explanation, it was worth reading twice.

 

[Tdol]

Which of these sentences is correct:
1-What he does for a living isn't difficult. Everybody can do that.
2-Everybody could have commited the murder.

Both are correct. Context is missing. If you mean to say that only one person can do it or could have done it, then use 'anybody'.

'everybody' means, all bodies, every person in the group.
'anybody' means, one body, one person in the group.

That's why I suggested 'anybody'- a crime, like the one on the Orient Express, could have many perpetrators, but I assumed that his job would be carried out by a single person rather than a group.

 

[Casiopea]

Which of these sentences is correct:
1-What he does for a living isn't difficult. Everybody can do that.
2-Everybody could have commited the murder.

Both are correct. Context is missing. If you mean to say that only one person can do it or could have done it, then use 'anybody'.

'everybody' means, all bodies, every person in the group.
'anybody' means, one body, one person in the group.

That's why I suggested 'anybody'- a crime, like the one on the Orient Express, could have [one of] many perpetrators, but I assumed that his job would be carried out by a single person rather than a group.

You gave me the idea.

 

[Tdol]

;-)

 

[RonBee]

Which of these sentences is correct:
1-What he does for a living isn't difficult. Everybody can do that.
2-Everybody could have commited the murder.

The first one is okay. (You could replace Everybody with Anybody there.) I think you can use Everybody in the second one only if you mean all of us. Otherwise, use Anybody there. In both cases, Anybody would be more idiomatic.