anyone
pronoun
any person; anybody
See anyone in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ĕnˈē-wŭnˌ, -wən)
pron. Any person.
Usage Note: The one-word form
anyone is used to mean “any person.” The two-word form
any one is used to mean “whatever one (person or thing) of a group.”
Anyone may join means that admission is open to everybody.
Any one may join means that admission is open to one person only. When followed by
of, only
any one can be used:
Any one (not
anyone)
of the boys could carry it by himself. •
Anyone is often used in place of
everyone in sentences like
She is the most thrifty person of anyone I know. In an earlier survey 64 percent of the Usage Panel found this sentence unacceptable in writing. •
Anyone and
anybody are singular terms and always take a singular verb. See Usage Note at
they.
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