User:Sieben von neun/sandbox

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They may be used even when the gender of the subject is obvious; they implies a generic (or representative of type class) rather than individuated interpretation: Isn't the use of every before a singular noun used to refer to all the individual members of the group? In this case isn't "every bride" replaced with the third person plural their not the third person singular her. Although every bride hopes her wedding goes well also sounds OK. I could be wrong on that one but here is another example, which I think is better: Every (preceding a singular noun) is used to refer to all the individual members of a set without exception. "the hotel assures every guest of personal attention"
 * 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear the speech — Shakespeare, Hamlet
 * There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend — Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors
 * If some guy beat me up, then I'd leave them.
 * Every bride hopes that their wedding day will go as planned.
 * Behind every successful man their is a woman.