As in the title, I'm conflicted whether to use the former or the latter. Logically speaking, I'd rather choose "hearts" since we're talking about everyones', but some quotes found on the internet make me wonder.
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Welcome to ELU. This has been dealt with earlier. Search through previous posts. Good Luck.– KrisCommented May 23, 2018 at 12:11
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I'm pretty sure it's a variation that hasn't been discussed before and it might prove helpful to people with similar way of thinking as me– Tomek CejkoCommented May 23, 2018 at 12:15
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Heart
Working off the assumption everyone only has one heart
As Nohat says here, everyone is a singlar word: Is "everyone" singular or plural?
To rationalise this, you are effectively saying 'every person' and thus you can see that the use of the singular is correct, fitting with 'has' as you've recognised and the singular 'heart'
So, like you can see that 'every person has a dream with stars in their heart' requires the singular heart so does yours.
Thus your sentence should read:
Everyone has a dream with stars in their heart
answered May 23, 2018 at 11:51
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In short, the Q is a duplicate of or at least closely related to "Is "everyone" singular or plural?" Also, identical questions have been dealt with here before.– KrisCommented May 23, 2018 at 12:12
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@Kris Closely related yeah but clearly the OP recognises that it is singular from the unquestioned use of has Commented May 23, 2018 at 12:14
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I have absolutely no problem with understanding that "everyone has", I don't get how this is a main point of concern. Commented May 23, 2018 at 12:15
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1@TomekCejko Could you highlight where exactly the confusion lies then? Is it something to do with their? It is just a gender neutral pronoun Commented May 23, 2018 at 12:17
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It may be true that "their" makes for a difficulty in comprehending this sentence. While "Everyone has" can be reshaped into "Every person has", "their heart" is a different story. Commented May 23, 2018 at 12:43