Help! Everybody has "their" "his" "her" "its" style.
How would you say todo el mundo tiene su estilo in english? I do not know what it goes after has what do we use when we are talking about someone/anyone for exemple: someone left his/her ring on the sink. How do we determine that what it goes after someone/everybody is her/his if we do not know that that someone is a female or male??
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My answer is probably too complicated for the simple question, but I believe there is a much clearer way to make this statement by changing just a few words.....
Although these are all great suggestions I believe to get a grammatically correct sentence in English it is necessary to change "everybody" to "every person". This would then change your sentence to:
****"Every person in the world has his own style."****
The subject and the verb always have to be in agreement. Whether you use the plural form or the singular form, subject, verb and pronoun must carry the same form through the sentence.
The word "everybody" isn't technically correct because it doesn't single out an individual characteristic belonging uniquely to each individual. It lumps "everybody" into one style which defeats the purpose of your sentence. Your sentence is trying to point out that each person in the world is unique to his own. Using the term "everybody" insinuates that everyone in the world has a style, but it does not emphasis that it is unique. The word "own" in the sentence is a pivotal word that clarifies that the style is unique to the person.
"Their". It's what we use when we don't know exactly who we're talking about, or don't wish to express it exactly.
Everyone has their own style.
Someone left their ring on the sink.
Technically, everybody and everyone are both singular, and when the gender of the person is unknown, we should use masculine pronouns (he, him, his). Some will prefer to say "his or her," though.
Everyone has his own style.
Everyone has his or her own style.
However, where I live (the southeastern USA), it is very common to use the 3rd person plural pronouns whenever a person is referenced by a gender-neutral singular word (like everyone, everybody, someone, somebody). We may do this even if we know the gender of the person...just because of the gender-neutral word we first used to reference them by. So, while it is not technically correct, I would most likely say...
Everyone's got their own style.
And, I think you will encounter this construction a lot.
In this case "everyone's" is a contraction of everyone and has. This also is a grammatical no-no (using "has got" when simply has by itself means exactly the same thing).
When using todo el mundo meaning everyone or everybody it tends to be generic and with both Spanish and English when the gender is not specified, you use the male gender. Therefore it is "his style".
Hello Milagro, I would say "their" because everybody is plural. My knowledge of the rules of English grammar is horrible but I've been speaking it over 56 years.
everyone has his or her own style.
everybody has their own style.
Hereis an excellent thread on this exact thing.
Everyone/Everybody es todo el mundo. Someone or somebody left his/her ring. Anybody would tend to be used in a Question as in "Is anybody there?"
That's because of "some" and "any", "any" tending to be used in questions and "some" being a quantity affirmed.
Here's an example of the "some" and "any" thing. "Are there any biscuits left?"=question. "Yes there are some in that biscuit tin"=answer.
Hmm, hope that helps 
The comments above about "their" are what you're looking for, sorry
Foxluv asked how I would say my new sentence in Spanish....I am not a native so there may be a simplified way of saying it, but I would say:
"Every person in the world has his own style"
"Cada persona en el mundo tiene su propio estilo"
