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What about singular subject "Everyone". Is it preferable to pick E rather than D for "you and me" reason?
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What about singular subject "Everyone". Is it preferable to pick E rather than D for "you and me" reason?

Good point, I missed that, I agree "Everyone" requires a singular verb. Abhi077 Please post official OA , Thank you.
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What about singular subject "Everyone". Is it preferable to pick E rather than D for "you and me" reason?

Good point, I missed that, I agree "Everyone" requires a singular verb. Abhi077 Please post official OA , Thank you.

The clause: Everyone carried their books in a satchel to school. – Although “everyone” is singular, it is an indefinite pronoun with its gender unclear, and GMAT accepts the use of a plural pronoun to indicate the possessive case for such indefinite pronouns. So the use of “their” is correct.


EVERYONE is SINGULAR and it takes a singular verb but its pronoun is PLURAL so it takes a PLURAL verb.

It, therefore, is both singular and plural as exemplified below:

Everyone was present at the meeting. (Singular subject and singular verb)

Hope this helps :)

Everyone should carry their identity cards. (Singular subject but plural pronoun)

Everyone attended the party, didn’t they? (Singular subject but plural pronoun)

Everyone was sleeping, weren't they? (Singular subject with singular but plural pronoun with plural verb)
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why you and me are used?
Hello, Vamshi4005. This has to do with grammar, and the short answer is that me cannot act as a subject, but it can act as an object. In the sentence at hand, the for in except for is a preposition, meaning that whatever follows will be the object of a preposition. Thus, except for me is grammatically acceptable, while except for I is not. We see the same tendency at work in the phrase between you and me, even if many native English speakers incorrectly say I. For more information on the topic, you might want to check out this short Thesaurus.com article.

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Except for you and I, everyone carried their books in a satchel to school.

Option Elimination -

A. Except for you and I, everyone carried their - as an object for the preposition "except for" we need the objective case "me" and not the subjective case "I." "they're" is ok even when "everyone" is a singular indefinite pronoun. GMAT is ok with the plural pronoun to refer to possessive case for such indefinite pronouns.

B. Except for you and me, everyone had carried their - There is only one action. No need to use the past perfect.

C. Excepting for you and I, everyone carried their - same issue of "I." ING "Excepting" should modify the noun that follows the comma, which is actually not. We need "except for" which introduces a prepositional phrase that is adverbial and modifies the subsequent clause.

D. With the exception of you and I, everyone carried his - the same issue of "I."

E. Except for you and me, everyone carried their - ok
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