- pronunciation:
- ev
ri
- features:
- Note
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adjective |
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If every dog on your street is big, then all the dogs that live on your street are big. If you decorate every cookie that you and your mom make, all of the cookies will be decorated when you are finished.
At the end of the play, every person in the audience stood and clapped for the actors.- similar words:
- all
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each or every?
Use
each when you want to emphasize one person or thing in a group at a time. Use
every when you want to emphasize the group as a whole, but as made up of individual people or things.
Compare:
- Each child got to choose one treat.
- Every child in the class is important.
- She put each loaf of bread on the shelf.
- Every item in the store has an SKU.