Apart
from doing translations, English/Spanish and vice versa for a
construction firm, I also give private lessons of these 2 languages to
adults, mainly business people, or whoever seeks my help. A new Spanish
student of mine seemed to have problem with distinguishing the correct
usage of the English words: somebody, nobody, anybody and everybody.
And, whether the verb that goes with each should be singular or plural. When
she looked perplexed despite my having painstakingly explained with
examples of each of these words, I had the following little story
written down for her to study.
This is a story of 4 people, named Somebody, Nobody, Anybody, and Everybody. They have an important job to do and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did.
Somebody
got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought
that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Somebody would have
to actually do it. In the end, Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did
what Anybody could have done.
For homework, I asked that she wrote a story to illustrate the correct usage of another 4 words: Something, Nothing, Anything, Everything.
Would you like to write that story for her?
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