all, each, every,
everyone,
everybody, everything
A
all compared to every
Technically, all means a
number of people or things considered as a group while every means a
number of people or things considered individually. But in practice every and its
compounds are often used when we are thinking of a group.
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B
each (adjective and
pronoun) and every (adjective)
each means a number of
persons or things considered individually. every
can have this meaning but with every there
is less emphasis on the individual.
Every man had a weapon means
'All the men had weapons.
and implies that the speaker counted the men and the weapons
and found that he had the same number of each.
Each man had a weapon implies that the speaker went to each man in
turn and checked that he had a weapon.
each
is a pronoun and adjective: Each (man) knows
what to do.
every is an adjective
only: Every man knows . . .
each can be used of two
or more persons or things, and is normally used of small numbers, every is not
normally used of very small numbers.
Both take a singular verb.
The possessive adjective is his/her/its.
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C
everyone/everybody and everything
(pronouns)
everyone/everybody + singular verb is normally
preferred to all (the) people + plural verb, i.e. we say Everyone is ready instead of All the people are ready.
There is no difference between everyone and everybody.
everything is similarly
preferred to all (the) things, i.e. we say Everything has been wasted instead
of All the things have
been wasted. The expressions all (the) people, all (the)
things are possible when followed by a phrase or clause:
All the people in the
room clapped.
I got all the things you asked/or. Otherwise they are
rarely used.
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