After hours one word or two

adjective. occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business: an after-hours drinking club.

What does afterschool mean?

: happening or done after the end of the school day after-school activities/programs.

What part of speech is after-school?

adjective

What does after hours mean in trading?

After-hours trading occurs after the market closes when an investor can buy and sell securities outside of regular trading hours. Trades in the after-hours session are completed through electronic communication networks (ECNs) that match potential buyers and sellers without using a traditional stock exchange.

How do you use after hours in a sentence?

After-hours sentence example. To meet expenses the youth worked in various ways, even making slippers by hand in after-hours; but when he came of age his text-book days were ended.

What does it mean after dark?

phrase. If you do something after dark, you do it when the sun has set and night has begun.

Is on call hyphenated?

When you say you’re on call, you won’t use a hyphen, but when you use the phrase as a pre-noun modifier, you should add the hyphen, as in “Throughout the on-call period.”

Does after hours trading effect opening price?

After-hours trading can affect a stock’s opening price… If a stock releases earnings or good news after market hours or in pre-market, and there are a lot of buyers, the price can go up based on demand. When the market opens, the stock can open at the price it ended at in premarket.

Who is allowed to trade after hours?

For instance, Schwab allows after hours trading from 4:05 p.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern. Wells Fargo accepts trades from 4:05 p.m. until 5 p.m. Eastern. TD Ameritrade offers trading 24 hours a day five days a week. Meanwhile, premarket trading takes place in the morning before the market opens.

How is opening price determined?

On the NYSE and ASE, the specialist determines the opening price by looking at his/her “book.” The specialists are supposed to select the one price that clears out the maximum number of orders; i.e. by looking at the buy and sell offers and choosing a single price will execute the most orders (shares).

What is an opening price?

The opening price is the price at which a security first trades when an exchange opens for the day. An opening price is not identical to the previous day’s closing price. There are several day-trading strategies based on the opening price of a market or security.

How do I participate in pre-market trading?

Find Your Desired Stock Decide which stock you want to buy pre-market. Go to your trading account order entry page and enter the stock symbol, the number of shares you want to trade and select “Buy” as the action. Before entering the price, check the current bid/ask range.

What is the difference between bid and ask price?

The bid price refers to the highest price a buyer will pay for a security. The ask price refers to the lowest price a seller will accept for a security. The difference between these two prices is known as the spread; the smaller the spread, the greater the liquidity of the given security.

Should I buy at bid or ask price?

Bid-Ask Pricing The ask price is always a little higher than the bid price. You’ll pay the ask price if you’re buying the stock, and you’ll receive the bid price if you are selling the stock. Certain large firms, called “market makers,” can set a bid-ask spread by offering to both buy and sell a given stock.

Should I sell at bid or ask?

The bid and ask price is essentially the best prices that a trader is willing to buy and sell for. The bid price is the highest price a buyer is prepared to pay for a financial instrument​​, while the ask price is the lowest price a seller will accept for the instrument.

Can you buy stock for less than ask price?

Yes, you can buy fewer shares since most modern stock exchanges support partial fills. More likely, your small retail order will never actually see an exchange but a liquidity provider or consolidator will fill your order with inventory.

What is the 30 day rule in stock trading?

Under the wash-sale rules, a wash sale happens when you sell a stock or security for a loss and either buy it back within 30 days after the loss-sale date or “pre-rebuy” shares within 30 days before selling your longer-held shares.

Can I buy stocks today and sell tomorrow?

Trade Today for Tomorrow Retail investors cannot buy and sell a stock on the same day any more than four times in a five business day period. This is known as the pattern day trader rule. Investors can avoid this rule by buying at the end of the day and selling the next day.

Is it worth buying one share of stock? Absolutely. In fact, with the emergence of commission-free stock trading, it’s quite feasible to buy a single share. Several times in recent months I’ve bought a single share of stock to add to a position simply because I had a small amount of cash in my brokerage account.

A round lot is a standard number of securities to be traded on an exchange. In stocks, a round lot is considered 100 shares or a larger number that can be evenly divided by 100. In bonds, a round lot is usually $100,000 worth.

New investors should seek to buy a minimum of 10 to 15 different stocks. The less diversification you have in your portfolio the more influence a single stock has. Too many stocks and you may find yourself struggling to monitor performance.

What stocks should I buy as a beginner?

The Best Stocks To Invest In for Beginners in 2021

• Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
• Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)
• Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)
• Costco (NASDAQ: COST)
• Disney (NYSE: DIS)
• Facebook (NASDAQ: FB)
• Mastercard (NYSE: MA)
• Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)

If you can keep your costs down, some experts recommend buying a portfolio of 12 to 18 stocks to properly diversify out the risk of owning individual stocks. Your diversification should be based on total share value, not share count.

While there is no minimum order limit on the purchase of a publicly-traded company’s stock, it’s advisable to buy blocks of stock with a minimum value of $500 to $1,000. This is because no matter what online or offline service an investor uses to purchase stock, there are brokerage fees and commissions on the trade.

Can I get rich off stocks?

The only way you can end up owing money on a stock is by using leverage. The easiest way to gain leverage is by opening a margin account and taking a loan from your broker. With a standard margin account, the broker will loan you up to 50% of your total account value.

• #1

Hi, could you tell me if gramatically both expressions are correct in this sentence? «After two hours / Two hours later, we went down and had lunch». Thanks.

• #2

Yes, they’re both grammatically correct.

• #4

Yes, they’re both grammatically correct.

Hi lingobingo.
I’d like to ask two other questions on top of that if you don’t mind.
1.If the previous event is mentioned, is it more natural to use later or after with the time phrase?
2. If it refers to the past, should I use past perfect to mention what happened in the later event?
Ex) 1. We tried the initial treatment 3 days ago and after two days, we figured out it [failed/had failed].
2. We tried the initial treatment 3 days ago and two days later, we figured out it [failed/had failed].

Thank you!

• #5

Re. #4

Lingobingo is a much better grammarian than me, but I can nevertheless tell you that I would use «had failed» in both of your examples.

• #6

Re. #4

Lingobingo is a much better grammarian than me, but I can nevertheless tell you that I would use «had failed» in both of your examples.

Thank you soundshift.
By the way, what’s your take on the first question? Would you use later or after or afterwards? Is it a personal preference in BE?

• #7

Well, Three days ago is rather recent, and two days on from three days ago is yesterday, so I would say «… and

yesterday

we figure out that it had failed».

If the event was less recent, I think I would use «after»:

«We tried the initial treatment about six months ago, and after a couple of weeks we figured out that it had failed.»

Depending on what this «treatment» is, though, I might say, «… and after a couple of weeks we decided/realised that it didn’t work/wasn’t working.» «Had failed» could still work in the right context.

• #8

Well, Three days ago is rather recent, and two days on from three days ago is yesterday, so I would say «… and

yesterday

we figure out that it had failed».

If the event was less recent, I think I would use «after»:

«We tried the initial treatment about six months ago, and after a couple of weeks we figured out that it had failed.»

Depending on what this «treatment» is, though, I might say, «… and after a couple of weeks we decided/realised that it didn’t work/wasn’t working.» «Had failed» could still work in the right context.

If the event was less recent, would you mind using either after, later or afterwards?

• #9

I think it would depend on the precise situation.

If there is difficulty involved, I would be inclined to use «after», e.g. «They inaugurated it in 1969, but it never worked satisfactorily, and after only three years they decided to abandon it.»

• #10

I think it would depend on the precise situation.

If there is difficulty involved, I would be inclined to use «after», e.g. «They inaugurated it in 1969, but it never worked satisfactorily, and after only three years they decided to abandon it.»

Thank you so much!
I’m living in Australia and I’ve heard ‘after’ much more than ‘later’ on a daily basis. I wouldn’t personally complain about a dose of laziness in Aussie English

• #11

Re. #4

Lingobingo is a much better grammarian than me, but I can nevertheless tell you that I would use «had failed» in both of your examples.

The same applies to me, ie. Lingobingo is surely a better grammarian than I am, but I think I have a logical explanation why past perfect is needed: Figuring something out logically must happen after that something had taken place. So, first the treatment fails or succeeds and only some time later you realize or find out that it really failed or succeeded.

Regarding after 2 days/2 days later, I have a slightly different take.
In your example #4, I’d definitely take 2) ‘2 days later‘, but in following example I’d take ‘after…’:
She took a covid rapid test the other day and after only 10 minutes she had the result.

I’m not totally sure why, but I think it has to do with the way how I envision myself in a similar scenario. If I take the test and proactively await the result I’m inclined to say «after…», but if I feel myself as a mere observer of those events, I’m inclined to describe it as a sequence of events, i.e first A happened, some time later B happened, and so on.

• #12

Hi lingobingo.
I’d like to ask two other questions on top of that if you don’t mind.
1.If the previous event is mentioned, is it more natural to use later or after with the time phrase?
2. If it refers to the past, should I use past perfect to mention what happened in the later event?
Ex) 1. We tried the initial treatment 3 days ago and after two days, we figured out it [failed/had failed].
2. We tried the initial treatment 3 days ago and two days later, we figured out it [failed/had failed].

The answers to the two questions are, I think:
1. It makes no difference.
2. That makes no sense – you need the past perfect to denote the earlier of two past events.

But how should we look at those alternative time adverbials? The short answer is that it really doesn’t much matter. They both provide the same information. They both answer the question “when?” — or, more specifically, “how long [after X]” / “how much later [than X]?”. Here are some ways in which they could be viewed:

after [a period of] two days — after is a preposition and the noun phrase two days is its complement​

after two days [have/had passed] — after can be seen a conjunction introducing a truncated finite clause​

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two days later — a time adverbial in a form suitable only for past tense narratives or counterfactual statements​

(basically the past-tense version of “2 days from now”, where the time reference is backshifted to an earlier time or event; hence the comparative “later [than…]”)​

• #13

The same applies to me, ie. Lingobingo is surely a better grammarian than I am, but I think I have a logical explanation why past perfect is needed: Figuring something out logically must happen after that something had taken place. So, first the treatment fails or succeeds and only some time later you realize or find out that it really failed or succeeded.

Regarding after 2 days/2 days later, I have a slightly different take.
In your example #4, I’d definitely take 2) ‘2 days later‘, but in following example I’d take ‘after…’:
She took a covid rapid test the other day and after only 10 minutes she had the result.

I’m not totally sure why, but I think it has to do with the way how I envision myself in a similar scenario. If I take the test and proactively await the result I’m inclined to say «after…», but if I feel myself as a mere observer of those events, I’m inclined to describe it as a sequence of events, i.e first A happened, some time later B happened, and so on.

The answers to the two questions are, I think:
1. It makes no difference.
2. That makes no sense – you need the past perfect to denote the earlier of two past events.

But how should we look at those alternative time adverbials? The short answer is that it really doesn’t much matter. They both provide the same information. They both answer the question “when?” — or, more specifically, “how long [after X]” / “how much later [than X]?”. Here are some ways in which they could be viewed:

after [a period of] two days — after is a preposition and the noun phrase two days is its complement​

after two days [have/had passed] — after can be seen a conjunction introducing a truncated finite clause​

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two days later — a time adverbial in a form suitable only for past tense narratives or counterfactual statements​

(basically the past-tense version of “2 days from now”, where the time reference is backshifted to an earlier time or event; hence the comparative “later [than…]”)​

Thank you so much for your kind replies!
It is clear now

elroy

Moderator: EHL, Arabic, Hebrew, German(-Spanish)

• #14

I tend to use the construction with “later.”

На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать грубую лексику.

На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.

два часа после

двух часов после

два часа спустя после

два часа с момента

2 часа после

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About two hours after sporting you take protein rich food.

А вот спустя два часа после тренировки лучше съесть порцию белковой пищи.

I found this two hours after landing.

Его удалось обнаружить только спустя два часа после приземления.

More worrisome, inflammation remains high for over two hours after consumption.

Что еще более тревожно, воспаление остается высоким в течение более двух часов после употребления.

Therefore, within two hours after training, you must eat.

По этой причине, в течение двух часов после тренировки, обязательно нужно покушать.

The situation was brought under control some two hours after the arrival of UNMIL troop and formed police unit reinforcements.

Ситуация была взята под контроль примерно два часа спустя после прибытия войск МООНЛ и дополнительных полицейских подразделений.

Nicotine withdrawal symptoms usually start about two hours after your last cigarette.

Абстиненция никотина (ломка) обычно начинается спустя приблизительно два часа после Вашей последней сигареты.

I had to check my glucose levels two hours after every meal to ensure that they were normal.

Мне приходилось проверять уровень глюкозы через два часа после каждого приема пищи, чтобы убедиться, что они в норме.

Consult your doctor if you vomit within two hours after taking the pill.

Обратитесь к врачу, если вас стошнит в течение двух часов после принятия таблетки.

Every fourth victim turned to a medical institution for the first two hours after the injury.

Каждый четвертый пострадавший обратился в медицинское учреждение в течение первых двух часов после травмы.

Since his participants were tested about two hours after they were dosed, that could explain why their time perception was different.

Поскольку его участников тестировали примерно через два часа после введения дозы, это могло объяснить, почему их восприятие времени было другим.

In two hours after the start of the hearings we were surrounded by 30 quite radical aggressive people in sportswear.

Через два часа после начала суда они оказались в окружении 30 достаточно радикально настроенных людей в спортивной одежде.

It happened two hours after completing her work shift.

Это произошло спустя два часа после завершения ее рабочей смены.

Never sleep within two hours after meals as this disturbs the mind and the digestive system.

Не спите в течение двух часов после еды: это притупляет ум и нарушает процессы в пищеварительной системе.

If this occurs within two hours after taking the pill you must take another one.

Если это произошло в течение двух часов после приема таблетки, необходимо принять еще одну.

At the same time the lethal outcome in most cases comes in the first two hours after development of an embolism.

При этом летальный исход в большинстве случаев наступает уже в первые два часа после развития эмболии.

With no priors, he’s out two hours after the bail review.

При отсутствии судимостей он выйдет через два часа после слушаний о залоге.

Nice of you to show up two hours after we open for business.

Мило, что ты заявился спустя два часа после начала рабочего дня.

It’s programmed to start transmitting two hours after she left.

Он запрограммирован начать передачу через два часа после её ухода.

You will be sent out two hours after the sun sets.

The patient can go home two hours after the procedure.

Ничего не найдено для этого значения.

Предложения, которые содержат two hours after

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There are some rules for joining two different words into one, but they do not cover all cases

AREAS OF UNCERTAINTY ABOUT JOINING WORDS TOGETHER

Is it correct to write bath tub, or should it be the single word bathtub? Is every day a correct spelling, or everyday? Uncertainties like this are widespread in English, even among proficient users. They are made worse by the fact that in some cases both spellings are correct, but mean different things.

Are there any guidelines for resolving such uncertainties? It seems that in some cases there are and in some there are not. I wish here to indicate some of these guidelines. They mostly involve combinations that can make either one word or two, depending on meaning or grammar.

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ORDINARY COMPOUNDS

Ordinary compounds are the area with the fewest guidelines. They include words like coursework, which I like to write as a single word but my Microsoft Word spellchecker tells me should be two. As a linguist, I usually disregard computer advice about language (see 68. How Computers Get Grammar Wrong), but the question of why ordinary compound words give especial problems is interesting. First, these words need to be defined.

One can think of a compound as two or more words joined together. Linguists, though, like to speak of joined roots or stems rather than words, partly because the joining into a compound stops them being words (a few are not even words by themselves, e.g. horti- in horticulture).

Another problem with “joined words” is that some, such as fearless, are not considered compounds at all. The -less ending is called not a “root” but an “affix”, a meaningful word part added to a root to modify its meaning. Most affixes (some named suffixes, e.g. -less, -ness, -tion, -ly, -ing; some prefixes, e.g. -un-, in-, mis-, pre-) cannot be separate words, but a few like -less can (see 106. Word-Like Suffixes and 146. Some Important Prefix Types). Thus, words like fearless, unhappy and international are not compounds because they have fewer than two roots. Other compounds are swimsuit, homework and eavesdrop.

Suggestions for recognising a compound are not always very helpful. The frequency of words occurring together is no guide because it ignores the fact that many frequent combinations are not compounds (e.g. town hall and open air). The grammatical classes of the words and the closeness of the link between them are sometimes mentioned, but are unreliable. The age of a combination is also suggested, the claim being that compounds originate as two separate words, and gradually evolve through constant use first into hyphenated expressions (like fire-eater or speed-read – see 223. Uses of Hyphens), and eventually into compounds. However, some quite recent words are already compounds, such as bitmap in computing.

Much more useful is the way compounds are pronounced. Single English words generally contain one syllable that is pronounced more strongly than the others (see 125. Stress and Emphasis). This means compounds should have just one strong syllable, while non-compounds should have more. The rule applies fairly universally (see 243. Pronunciation Secrets, #3). For example, home is the only strong syllable in homework, but one of two in home rule. I write coursework as one word because course- is stronger than work.

The only problem with this approach is that you have to know pronunciations before you start, which is not always the case if English is not your mother tongue. The only other resort is a dictionary or spellcheck!

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NOUNS DERIVED FROM PHRASAL VERBS

Happily, some compound words have some other helpful features. Most are words whose roots, if written as two words, are also correct but have different meaning and grammar, so that the meaning indicates the spelling or vice versa. A particularly large category of such words is illustrated by the compound noun giveaway (= “obvious clue”). If its two roots are written separately as give away, they become a “phrasal” verb – a combination of a simple English verb (give) with a small adverb (away) – meaning “unintentionally reveal” (see 244. Special Uses of GIVE, #12).

There are many other nouns that can become phrasal verbs, e.g. takeover, takeaway, makeup, cutoff, breakout, setdown, pickup, washout, login and stopover. In writing there is always a need to remember that, if the two “words” are going to act as a verb, they must be spelled separately, but if they are going to act as a noun, they must be written together.

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OTHER CHOICES THAT DEPEND ON WORD CLASS

In the examples above, it is the choice between noun and verb uses that determines the spelling. Other grammatical choices can have this effect too. The two alternative spellings mentioned earlier, every day and everyday, are an example. The first (with ev- and day said equally strongly) acts in sentences like a noun or adverb, the second (with ev- the strongest) like an adjective. Compare: 

(a) NOUN: Every day is different.

(b) ADVERB: Dentists recommend cleaning your teeth every day.

(c) ADJECTIVE: Everyday necessities are expensive. 

In (a), every day is noun-like because it is the subject of the verb is (for details of subjects, see 12. Singular and Plural Verb Choices). In (b), the same words act like an adverb, because they give more information about a verb (cleaning) and could easily be replaced by a more familiar adverb like regularly or thoroughly (see 120. Six Things to Know about Adverbs). In (c), the single word everyday appears before a noun (necessities), giving information about it just as any adjective might (see 109. Placing an Adjective after its Noun). It is easily replaced by a more recognizable adjective like regular or daily. For more about every, see 169. “All”, “Each” and “Every”.

Another example of a noun/adverb contrast is any more (as in …cannot pay any more) versus anymore (…cannot pay anymore). In the first, any more is the object of pay and means “more than this amount”, while in the second anymore is not the object of pay (we have to understand something like money instead), and has the adverb meaning “for a longer time”.

A further adverb/adjective contrast is on board versus onboard. I once saw an aeroplane advertisement wrongly saying *available onboard – using an adjective to do an adverb job. The adverb on board is needed because it “describes” an adjective (available). The adjective form cannot be used because there is no noun to describe (see 6. Adjectives with no Noun 1). A correct adjective use would be onboard availability.

Slightly different is alright versus all right. The single word is either an adjective meaning “acceptable” or “undamaged”, as in The system is alright, or an adverb meaning “acceptably”, as in The system works alright. The two words all right, on the other hand, are only an adjective, different in meaning from the adjective alright: they mean “100% correct”. Thus, Your answers are all right means that there are no wrong answers, whereas Your answers are alright means that the answers are acceptable, without indicating how many are right.

Consider also upstairs and up stairs. The single word could be either an adjective (the upstairs room) or an adverb (go upstairs) or a noun (the upstairs). It refers essentially to “the floor above”, without necessarily implying the presence of stairs at all – one could, for example, go upstairs in a lift (see 154. Lone Prepositions after BE). The separated words, by contrast, act only like an adverb and do mean literally “by using stairs” (see 218. Tricky Word Contrasts 8, #3).

The pair may be and maybe illustrates a verb and adverb use:

(d) VERB: Food prices may be higher.

(e) ADVERB: Food prices are maybe higher.

In (e), the verb is are. The adverb maybe, which modifies its meaning, could be replaced by perhaps or possibly. Indeed, in formal writing it should be so replaced because maybe is conversational (see 108. Formal and Informal Words).

My final example is some times and sometimes, noun and adverb:

(f) NOUN: Some times are harder than others.

(g) ADVERB: Sometimes life is harder than at other times. 

Again, replacement is a useful separation strategy. The noun times, the subject of are in (f), can be replaced by a more familiar noun like days without radically altering the sentence, while the adverb sometimes in (g) corresponds to occasionally, the subject of is being the noun life.

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USES INVOLVING “some”, “any”, “every” AND “no”

The words some, any, every and no generally do not make compounds, but can go before practically any noun to make a “noun phrase”. In a few cases, however, this trend is broken and these words must combine with the word after them to form a compound. Occasionally there is even a choice between using one word or two, depending on meaning.

The compulsory some compounds are somehow, somewhere and somewhat; the any compounds are anyhow and anywhere, while every and no make everywhere and nowhere. There is a simple observation that may help these compounds to be remembered: the part after some/any/every/no is not a noun, as is usually required, but a question word instead. The rule is thus that if a combination starting with some, any, every or no lacks a noun, a single word must be written.

The combinations that can be one word or two depending on meaning are someone, somebody, something, sometime, sometimes, anyone, anybody, anything, anyway (Americans might add anytime and anyplace), everyone, everybody, everything, everyday, no-one, nobody and nothing. The endings in these words (-one, -body, -thing, -way, -time, -place and –day) are noun-like and mean the same as question words (who? what/which? how? when? and where? – see 185. Noun Synonyms of Question Words).

Some (tentative) meaning differences associated with these alternative spellings are as follows: 

SOME TIME = “an amount of time”

Please give me some time.

SOMETIME (adj.) = “past; old; erstwhile”

I met a sometime colleague

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SOMETHING = “an object whose exact nature is unimportant”.

SOME THING = “a nasty creature whose exact nature is unknown” (see 260. Formal Written Uses of “Thing”, #2).

Some thing was lurking in the water.

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ANYONE/ANYBODY = “one or more people; it is unimportant who”

Anyone can come = Whoever wants to come is welcome; Choose anyone = Choose whoever you want – one or more people.

ANY ONE = “any single person/thing out of a group of possibilities”.

Any one can come = Only one person/thing (freely chosen) can come; Choose any one = Choose whoever/whichever you want, but only one.

ANY BODY = “any single body belonging to a living or dead creature”.

Any body is suitable = I will accept whatever body is available.

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ANYTHING = “whatever (non-human) is conceivable/possible, without limit”.

Bring anything you like = There is no limit in what you can bring; Anything can happen = There is no limit on possible happenings.

ANY THING = “any single non-human entity in a set”.

Choose any thing = Freely choose one of the things in front of you.

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EVERYONE/EVERYBODY = “all people” (see 169. “All”, “Each” and “Every” and 211.General Words for People).

Everyone/Everybody is welcome.

EVERY ONE = “all members of a previously-mentioned group of at least three things (not people)”.

Diamonds are popular. Every one sells easily.

EVERY BODY = “all individual bodies without exceptions”.

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EVERYTHING = “all things/aspects/ideas”.

Everything is clear.

EVERY THING = “all individual objects, emphasising lack of exceptions”.

Every thing on display was a gift.

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NO-ONE/NOBODY = “no people”

No-one/Nobody came.

NO ONE = “not a single” (+ noun)

No one answer is right.

NO BODY = “no individual body”.

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NOTHING = “zero”.

Nothing is impossible.

NO THING = “no individual object”. 

There are other problem combinations besides those discussed here; hopefully these examples will make them easier to deal with.