Everyone vs Everybody Usage Guide with Examples

Choosing the word ‘everyone’ or ‘everybody’ can be a bit complex. Therefore we have this guide to give you a detailed look at differences and examples of everyone vs everybody and how they are used to avoid any further confusion.

There is little to no difference in these two words. However, there is a very slight difference, one that most people overlook and doesn’t matter too much in the English language.

The word ‘everyone’ is used to identify people from a group or place. The word ‘everybody’ is used to identify people across the world.

For example: when you are speaking to an audience, you refer to them as everyone because they are part of a group of people.
When you are speaking about people in general, you refer to them as everybody.

As you can see, the differences are very slim. There are no major rules on the correct usages of these two words.

When to use Everyone

The word ‘everyone’ should be used to Identifying people from a group or place. Let’s look at some sentences where it is used properly.

  • Everyone likes cheese.
  • Everyone loves that song.
  • Check everyone.
  • Everyone I know went to see that new film last night.
  • How is everyone?
  • Everyone here is eating pasta.
  • Everyone around you cares about it.

When to use Everybody

The word ‘Everybody’ is used to Identifying all people in general and world wide. Let’s look at some examples where it is used properly.

  • Everybody needs to sleep.
  • You know everybody.
  • Everybody gets a little sad sometimes.
  • Come meet everybody.
  • Everybody needs air to breathe.
  • I think that everybody should have equal rights.
  • Everybody has the right to an education.
  • Everybody needs to drink water to stay hydrated.

As you can see from the examples above, ‘everyone’ and ‘everybody’ have their own correct uses.
This however, is not a massive deal as you can use either ‘everyone’ or ‘everybody’ in the same context as each other. The same rule applies when using ‘someone’ and ‘somebody’ but the rules are not important on this one.

To make it a little simpler, just keep in mind that everyone refers to a group of people which is more formal than speaking or referring to a group of people as everybody.
Everybody is referred to basically anybody on the planet, people in general.

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