<p>Would one say, “Everybody was enjoying themselves,” or, “Everybody was enjoying himself?”</p>
<p>Everybody was enjoying themselves…obviously</p>
<p>2nd option doesn’t really make sense considering part of ‘everybody’ could be female. However I will admit this is tricky because everybody is singular.</p>
<p>i believe that it should be “everybody should be engoying him/her self” …it cant be themselves to maintain subj-verb agreement</p>
<p>Maybe a possible rendering is:</p>
<p>“everybody should be enjoying himself or herself.”</p>
<p>I think this option maintains subject verb agreement and is still logical.</p>
<p>Everybody is a singular noun, so therefore the second choice is correct. Refrain from posting if you don’t know what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>^yep. Everybody was enjoying him/herself.</p>
<p>um its definitely the latter because everybody is singular</p>
<p>“Everybody was enjoying themselves” is certainly incorrect. “Everybody was enjoying themself” is acceptable to those who support the singular use of “they.” To those who do not (such as the writers of the SAT and ACT), “Everybody was enjoying himself or herself” is correct.</p>
<p>Yes, the first choice was incorrect. It features a subject-verb disagreement since “Everybody” is singular and “themselves” is plural.</p>
<p>The 2nd choice is correct, although in general situations, it should be “himself or herself”</p>