EACH


Meaning of EACH in English

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

If you refer to ~ thing or ~ person in a group, you are referring to every member of the group and considering them as individuals.

Each book is beautifully illustrated...

Each year, hundreds of animals are killed in this way...

Blend in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after ~ one.

DET: DET sing-n

Each is also a pronoun.

...two bedrooms, ~ with three beds...

She began to consult doctors, and ~ had a different diagnosis.

PRON

Each is also an emphasizing pronoun.

We ~ have different needs and interests.

PRON

Each is also an adverb.

The children were given one ~, handed to them or placed on their plates...

They were selling tickets at six pounds ~.

ADV: amount ADV

Each is also a quantifier.

He handed ~ of them a page of photos...

Each of these exercises takes one or two minutes to do...

The machines, ~ of which is perhaps five feet in diameter, are not the largest devices in the room.

QUANT: QUANT of def-pl-n

2.

If you refer to ~ one of the members of a group, you are emphasizing that something applies to every one of them.

He picked up forty of these publications and read ~ one of them.

QUANT: QUANT of def-pl-n emphasis

3.

You can refer to ~ and every member of a group to emphasize that you mean all the members of that group.

Each and every person responsible for his murder will be brought to justice...

They can’t destroy truth without destroying ~ and every one of us.

PHRASE: PHR n, PHR of n emphasis

4.

You use ~ other when you are saying that ~ member of a group does something to the others or has a particular connection with the others.

We looked at ~ other in silence...

Both sides are willing to make allowances for ~ other’s political sensitivities...

Uncle Paul and I hardly know ~ other.

PRON: v PRON, prep PRON

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