05/01/2025
Each and Every: the difference
1-Each and Every are both normally used with singular nouns. Each can be used to talk about two or more people or things ; every is normally used to talk about three or more.
Examples: The business makes less money each/ every year.
She had a child holding on to each hand.
2-Meaning
Each and every can be used without much difference of meaning.
Example: You look more beautiful each/ every time I see you.
But we prefer each when we are thinking of people or things separately, one at a time. And every is more common when we are thinking a people or things together, in a group.
Examples: Each person in turn went to see the doctor.
Every patient came from the same small village.
3-Structures
We do not use each with words and expressions like almost ,practically, nearly or without exceptions ,which stress the idea of a whole group.
Example:
She has lost nearly every friend she had.
