transcription, транскрипция: [ boʊθ ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You use both when you are referring to two people or things and saying that something is true about each of them.
She cried out in fear and flung both arms up to protect her face...
Put both vegetables into a bowl and crush with a potato masher.
DET : DET pl-n
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Both is also a quantifier.
Both of these women have strong memories of the Vietnam War...
We’re going to Andreas’s Boutique to pick out something original for both of us.
QUANT : QUANT of pl-n
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Both is also a pronoun.
Miss Brown and her friend, both from Stoke, were arrested on the 8th of June...
Will there be public-works programmes, or community service, or both?
PRON
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Both is also an emphasizing pronoun.
He visited the Institute of Neurology in Havana where they both worked...
‘Well, I’ll leave you both, then,’ said Gregory.
PRON : n PRON
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Both is also a predeterminer.
Both the band’s writers are fascinating lyricists...
Both the horses were out, tacked up and ready to ride.
PREDET : PREDET det pl-n [ emphasis ]
2.
You use the structure both...and when you are giving two facts or alternatives and emphasizing that each of them is true or possible.
Now women work both before and after having their children...
Any such action would have to be approved by both American and Saudi leaders.
CONJ