everything starts with vs everything start with

The correct phrase to use is 'everything starts with.' The verb 'start' needs to agree with the subject 'everything,' which is singular. Therefore, 'starts' is the correct form to use in this context.

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This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

"everything starts with"

This phrase is used to indicate that all things or actions have a common beginning point or cause.

Examples:

Everything starts with a single step.
Everything starts with a dream.
Everything starts with a plan.
Everything starts with an idea.
Everything starts with a decision.

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Now, everything starts with the jab.
But everything starts with you, Adelaide.
Everything starts with a pure ideal and finishes with hatred
Ten cosmos, eight Smirnoff ices, And everything else starts with the word pomegranate.
That everything starts and ends with just being there for each other.
Or are you just guessing everything that starts with "C"?
Why don't we start with everything you got?
I want to start everything with you from the beginning
The sound that that very large chest makes, of the horse - the whinnying and the nickering and everything - that starts usually with one performer, carries on with a second person and ends with a third.
Everything starts somewhere although many physicists disagree.
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
Most cops, after something like that, everything starts to fall apart... their job, relationships.
Everything starts from there, I agree.
After that everything starts growing back to its original size.
Although, that said, at high revs, everything starts to tingle and vibrate.
But then everything start coming back again.
"Everything starts to grow again..."
What I love about spring, how everything starts growing again when it's all been so gray.
It's when I get up, everything starts to fall apart.
Everything starts to go dark. I'm slippin' into the abyss, and then...

This phrase is incorrect in English.

"everything start with"

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Now, everything starts with the jab.
But everything starts with you, Adelaide.
Everything starts with a pure ideal and finishes with hatred
Ten cosmos, eight Smirnoff ices, And everything else starts with the word pomegranate.
That everything starts and ends with just being there for each other.
Or are you just guessing everything that starts with "C"?
Why don't we start with everything you got?
I want to start everything with you from the beginning
The sound that that very large chest makes, of the horse - the whinnying and the nickering and everything - that starts usually with one performer, carries on with a second person and ends with a third.
Everything starts somewhere although many physicists disagree.
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
Most cops, after something like that, everything starts to fall apart... their job, relationships.
Everything starts from there, I agree.
After that everything starts growing back to its original size.
Although, that said, at high revs, everything starts to tingle and vibrate.
But then everything start coming back again.
"Everything starts to grow again..."
What I love about spring, how everything starts growing again when it's all been so gray.
It's when I get up, everything starts to fall apart.
Everything starts to go dark. I'm slippin' into the abyss, and then...

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