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What's the difference between Somebody and Someone What's the difference between Somebody and Someone

2019年6月21日 12:13

In most contexts, they are interchangeable. The only difference that most native speakers can agree upon is that someone is more formal than somebody (just as anyone is more formal than anybody, and everyone is more formal than everybody).

2019年6月21日

Practical English Usage 3rd edition by Michael Swan (2005).

p. 540

There is no significant difference between somebody and someone, anybody and anyone, everybody and everyone or nobody and no one. The -one forms are more common in writing; the -body forms are more frequent in speech in British English.

2019年6月21日