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Everyone was interested in the news,________________?

Is the answer "wasn't he"? If not, what should it be?

Other choices include: -was he -were they -weren't they

Wang Yi
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    Everyone implies a group (i.e. more than one) so the pronoun has to be plural. – KillingTime Sep 29 '20 at 13:20
  • There's no 'satisfactory' answer here. What people do is use 'weren't they'. Purists might recast to 'All the people ....' – Edwin Ashworth Sep 29 '20 at 13:23
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    Everyone was* there, weren't they?, Everyone is here, aren't they?* Everyone is syntactically singular, but semantically lural. – FumbleFingers Sep 29 '20 at 15:16
  • Specifically the duplicates of that question and this for whether it should be negative: https://english.stackexchange.com/q/155653/191178 – Laurel Sep 29 '20 at 15:37

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