Learn English Conversation: EACH and EVERY... What's the difference? | Go Natural English

The words each and every at first glance, they might seem exactly the same

But if we look a little closer and we compare examples you'll see that they are different

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Your country each and every these words at first glance may seem exactly the same

interchangeable and in many cases they are

the thing is that the difference in meaning really has more to do with the

feeling of what you want to convey the meaning of what you're saying the context the idea and

doesn't depend on

the grammatical

Structure as much so we're going to talk about grammar

But keep in mind that a lot of the correctness of use has to do with what you mean to say

For example, each of you is special or every one of you is special

These are both correct, but the difference is when we use each. We are focusing more on the

individual the uniqueness the difference the

individual person or item when eyes say

Every I'm actually thinking of you still as an individual but within a group I'm lumping you together

With all of our go natural English family, even though the meaning is similar

It's a little bit different just to confuse things even more I can even use each and every together

For example each and every one of you is special to me and that is correct

That's placing extra emphasis and being even more

Dramatic in the way. I'm expressing myself, and I'm putting more feeling into it throughout this lesson

I'll give you several examples and we'll have some practice at the end because you know that I like to make these lessons

practical and helpful for you

so another example is let's say I'm working and I've had a lot of emails to respond to and so I say I've

responded to each and every email because there were a lot so you can see we can use each and every

Interchangeably we can also use them at the same time in the same sentence

but now let's look at how they're different and how you might want to use them differently every

Has the idea of a group we're lumping people together every person here agrees. It could be

interchangeable with

Everyone agrees or all of the people agree

So the idea here is that we're expressing that there is a group of people

That agrees the idea is that with the word every our emphasis is on the collective group

Each is more about the unique

Individual so each is about seeing a group of people as individuals

and

Every is more about lumping all the individuals together

so the focus of each is on the individual and the focus of every is on the group a

Quick grammar tip to help you use each and every is that we use them

before a

countable

singular noun, for example e each packets of sugar

has

Ten calories. So sugar is a

Non-count noun, but packet is a countable noun. That's why I can say each packet now

Some native speakers or some people who are just taking shortcuts might

Actually cut out that packet of and just say each sugar has 50 calories

But please know that that is not correct

I'm going to teach you the correct way here each

can also be used with plural nouns but must be followed by the word of every

On the other hand cannot be used with plural nouns

For example, let's say that we're talking about moving to different cities

so we're weighing the options the pros and the cons between let's say moving to Miami or New

York or Dallas or Los Angeles

And I could say well

Each one of those cities has pros and cons

Or I could say each of the cities has pros and cons

So if I was just talking about two of the cities, let's say in New York and Los Angeles

I could still say each city has pros and

Cons or I could say both both is another word that we use when we have two options

Both have pros and cons. So each is used here to express each

individual city's

Uniqueness its pros its cons. It's good things. It's bad things within a

Collection of options, so maybe we're considering four different cities

Let's talk about every every is often used with a series of events. For example every morning

I like to drink coffee or

Every morning. I like to meditate

Every year I like to go on vacation

every

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every day or every week

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let's go back to talk a little bit about when we're talking about one thing two things or

Multiple things when we're talking about just one thing for example

a person so I could use each or every

Each person is unique or every person is unique. Those are both correct

it's just that the focus is on the individual with each and the group with every but if we're talking about

Two things or two people then we must use each or both

But we cannot use every every is only for more than two

So 3 4 5 etc

When we're talking about two items

Perhaps a pair of items we can use the word each but to me

It sounds more natural and more common to say both. For example, I'm wearing earrings in

each ear

but to me

It sounds more natural to say I'm wearing earrings in both ears

when we're talking about more than two items we can use each or every again so it's really only

When you're talking about two items that we cannot use every and I prefer to use both

But you can use each it's correct

So when we're talking about three or more items

We can go back to using each or every for example I listened to each song on the album

I listen to every song on the album or to really emphasize I could say I listened to each and

Every song on the album, it was so good

so

I hope that that clears up some confusion about the differences between each and every now I want to clear up a

Little bit more about some doubts that are related to the use of each and every particularly

compound nouns like

Everyone or everyone everything?

everything

every time

where everyday versus every day

So I'm going to quickly run through each of these

To clarify doubts and then we're going to practice with a quiz together at the end

Everyone has one word versus everyone as two words

Everyone can replace everybody. It's a pronoun. That means all the people it's really to

focus on that group of people now

Everyone puts the focus on the individual again when you use everyone as two words

It must be followed by an of

Phrase, for example, I would like to thank every one of you

Who leaves a comment

Versus I would like to thank everyone one word

Every day as one word versus every day as two words. First of all every day is an adjective

So you must look first at how you're using it in the sentence where you're using it in the sentence

Is it describing something else? So this is an everyday shirt that I like to wear

It's not anything too special. It's an adjective

every day describes shirts on the other hand every day or two different words that describes the

Frequency that I do something every day. I

Wear this shirts. Actually, that's not true. It's just an example okay if you can replace

Every day with each day, then it's probably going to be two words another example

Everyday items I use every day include my iPhone

My sunglasses and my purse my everyday routine

includes making coffee

Doing meditation and working now

Everything vs. Every thing

everything is one word could be replaced as all or all the things so

Every thing places more emphasis on the individual thing

you're probably noticing a pattern here that when we have separate words like

Everyone or everything there's more emphasis on the individual now

Everything as one word is really the whole the group the focus is on the collective group. For example

everything on this menu is unhealthy or

Everything on this menu is unhealthy. These are both correct

but the first sentence places the emphasis on the whole menu the

collective food items and the second example everything as two words really places the emphasis on

individual items and it's slightly more dramatic, but it's also

slightly less common around

1850 the use of

Everything as two separate words declined and the use of everything as one word

Well it increased and so it's much more common to use everything as one word

Finally every time as one word versus every time as two words. This one is easy because we never use it as a

Compound noun it is always two words. Every time is always every time

lastly before we practice there are two idiomatic uses of each and

Every that you should know about because they're fun and useful

first of all is to each his own which means each individual person has

Unique preferences maybe I like pickles and you don't so you say well to each his own and I would say more pickles

For me. Okay. Another idiomatic phrase is

every man for himself

Which you might think is a little confusing because we're talking about the individual himself

But we're actually looking at a group of people this is often used in

Well, maybe kind of emergency situations like save yourself every man for himself means that you are

responsible

For your own well-being or your own success every man for himself

So there will be no group efforts. You have your own individual responsibility. That is the meaning, okay?

So let's practice. I have a little quiz for you. I'd like you to fill in the blanks here for six questions

I'm gonna read these sentences

Leaving the blank for you to fill in so I'd like you to say them with me and say it out loud

the word that you think should be in the blank either each or

Every it's raining

Day this week. It's raining every day this week every because we're talking about a series of events every day this week

Song on the album is really unique

Each song on the album is really unique because we're focused on the individuality or uniqueness of each song

Person is a unique individual

Again, each person is the best choice because we're focused on their unique individuality

I'm wearing earrings in

Of my ears. I'm

Wearing earrings on each or both of my ears. I would like to go to the gym

Day, I would like to go to the gym every day because it is a series of days and last

man for himself every

Man for himself because it's an idiomatic phrase. I hope that you enjoyed this lesson

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