| Every Every, like each, is always used with a singular noun form and therefore with a singular verb form in English because we are counting the things or people that we are talking about separately one by one: - Every child in the class plays a musical instrument.
- Every instrument belonging to the school is tuned regularly.
everybody / everyone / everything It is true that everybody and everyone refers to everybody and everyone in a group of people and everything refers to everything in a group of things. Even so, they are still perceived individually or as a totality, so the singular verb form is still maintained: - Is everybody happy with that? Does everyone understand my position?
- Everything she owns has been stolen.
all - with singular verb forms All is more often used with plural verb forms, though sometimes it is used with singular verbs. This happens when we are referring to all as a totality of items under consideration. Here, all is close in meaning to everything: - Is all well with you?
- Don't cry! All that matters is that you are safe.
- That is all she has in her suitcase: a blouse, two dresses and a pair of sandals.
- All she wants now is to get back home to her parents.
- All that happened was that she got on to the wrong train.
Note that in this sense, all is often used together with a relative that-clause, all that matters, all she wants, etc. In your example, Ihsan, as there is no relative clause following all, we would be more likely to say: - Is everything finished? ~ Yes, everything is finished.
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