Whats the difference ALL EVERY EACH Basic English Grammar
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hi everybody my name is alicia in this
lesson i’m going to talk about
all every and each i’m going to share
some differences
in how we use these words and a lot of
example sentences so let’s get started
okay i want to begin this lesson by
talking about
all all is a word we use to mean
100 percent of something
we can use all with the plural form of a
noun
so let’s look at some example sentences
with all
the first one all students must purchase
the textbook all students so here i’ve
used
students the plural form of student
all students must purchase the textbook
this might be on like the class outline
for like a course of some kind at a
school all students must purchase the
textbook
in other words 100 percent of students
must purchase the textbook in this case
students means
students in this course or students
taking this course
all students in the course must purchase
the textbook
let’s look at the next example all the
gorillas escaped
the zoo so this is a strange example
sentence
but here you might notice yes i’ve used
the plural form
all the gorillas yes again uh s
form or rather uh plural form here
all the gorillas escape the zoo
so lots of students ask why the here
know the here
we use the as you’ll see in these other
example sentences
when we want to refer to something
specific to the situation
that we know about from like prior
to this sentence so before this sentence
we had some information
so here of course it’s an example
sentence so we don’t have
information but this is something you
might see
in the news so as a reporter or someone
is
sharing information about a story they
give a small detail like
gorillas in this case and then when we
want to talk about those same gorillas
later in the conversation
we would use the all the gorillas so
those
gorillas we talked about earlier in the
conversation
so that’s why you’ll see the use
sometimes
and not used in other times like here
like i could say
all the students in the class must
purchase the textbook that’s okay
we just need to make sure we use the
when the person reading or
listening understands like which noun
you’re talking about
so this is an example of how it might be
used
so all meaning 100 100
of the gorillas in this situation
escaped
the zoo let’s move on to the next
sentence which also uses
the we weren’t able to recover
all of the files we weren’t able to
recover
all of the files so here all connects
with
files again the plural form files so
again
all of the files or we weren’t able to
recover
all the files it’s also okay you can
drop this of
if you like but you may hear it so again
we’re using
the files so in this situation
the we here they’re trying to recover
like regain
or find something that’s lost or damaged
so what are they looking for these
files in particular so there’s some
understanding between
the speaker and listener here and the
speaker in this case
we they want to indicate these files
specifically we weren’t able to recover
all of the files
so the files we were talking about in a
previous conversation for example
okay finally all 15
of the students graduated all 15 of the
students
graduated so again i’m using students
here
in this case i have the so all 15
students
graduated is also okay it’s
just a small nuance in conversation
if you’re talking maybe in a news story
about 15
students who made a special project
together or something
maybe interesting happened to these
students or maybe they had a terrible
experience
but you want to report those same 15
students
graduated all 15 of the students
graduated
you would use the to talk about those
same students you introduced earlier in
your conversation
so saying something like all 15
students graduated is also okay
but we use the to really emphasize
those students we referred to earlier so
we use all to refer to 100
of something and we use it with the
plural form
of a noun as we’ve shown here okay
so with this in mind let’s continue to
every
every then every is used to talk about
all parts in a group so yes it means
all of something but we want to talk
about
all in terms of the parts of that thing
so i’ll show some examples of this in
just a moment
we use every with the singular form
of a noun we used all with the plural
form we’re going to use
every with the singular form of a noun
every also has this use we can use it
before
a time period to express frequency
so for example every day every month
every year
every summer that expresses frequency so
100 percent of days 100
of summers you can imagine it has that
meaning we cannot use all
in this way finally we can use every
with
single for emphasis every single
something
like every single and mostly some
examples of this
a couple of points i want to mention
here uh
first let’s look at this one regarding
this time period
point make sure when you’re writing that
you use a space
after every so when you write every day
for example i’ve noticed this is a point
for many learners when you write every
day
make sure to write every space day
why because every day is an adjective so
without without a space here every day
every day is an adjective
so that means regular or common or
something that’s typical
so for example what are your everyday
activities or this is an everyday task
meaning a regular or common task so
please be careful
every day and every day have different
functions
so please keep this in mind okay
with that said let’s take a look at some
examples
first one every single person in our
class
failed the test every single person in
our class
failed the test here i have single in
parentheses
so this is just sort of like an optional
emphasis expression
every single person here i have the
singular
i talked about how we have to use the
singular person here
every single person in our class failed
the test that means
we want to emphasize the individual
people
in the class so yes this means 100
percent
of people but when i really want to
emphasize the individuals there
as parts of this whole i use every
and this adds to that emphasis every
single
okay let’s move on to the next one here
every team
member has his or her own specialty
so again i’m using the singular form
every team
member every team member so here
we have a team so we know that it’s a
group of people
and we want to talk about the
individuals in that group
as parts of the whole so every team
member has his or her
own specialty i use every to talk about
that
i could use single here if i wanted to
every single team member
and that would make it sound even
stronger but we use this
to emphasize again parts in a whole
okay the next example sentence is we go
jogging together every weekend
we go jogging together every weekend so
this
every is this time period one this
frequency one that i talked about
we go jogging together every weekend so
every comes before my time period
this means 100 of weekends we go jogging
together
we go jogging together every weekend we
could change this to
every summer or every tuesday or every
day
for example but again make sure to keep
a space
between every and the following word
especially when you’re using
day okay finally i listen to music
every single day so again i’m using this
as a frequency expression i listen to
music
every day i can use single here as well
so i’m
emphasizing every day in this case i
really want to make it clear like i love
music so i listen to it every single day
like without fail so we can combine this
frequency expression
every something with a single to
emphasize
okay great so this is an introduction to
every let’s move on now to each so
each is used again similar to every
when we want to talk about the
individual units in something
so the slight difference in feeling here
is that when we’re using every we’re
talking about parts
in a hole so like every team member for
example or every student in the class
there’s some whole like some larger
group
we can imagine with each yes
there maybe is like a larger group but
we really want to
focus on individuals we really
want the emphasis to be on the
individual unit
of something second point we use
each when there are only two of
something
so i’ll show you some examples of when
this can be important but if there are
only two
of the thing you’re talking about use
each to describe that not
every okay finally we can use this with
the plural and the singular forms of
nouns so both are okay
and there are a few different patterns
that we can take
finally you might see this expression
each
and every each and every is a set phrase
we cannot use every end each we don’t
use that
please use each and every we use this
before
a noun or again we could use this before
like
day or weekend to emphasize so this is
another emphasizing phrase each and
every
okay let’s look at some examples of
using each
first each of the computers
crashed each of the computers crashed so
this could mean
two computers and both of them crash
that could mean it
or it could mean like each computer in
like a computer lab crashed we could use
it in that way
so sentences like these maybe don’t
always give
all the information we need to know a
little bit about the situation but this
is an example of how we could use each
with a plural noun each of the computers
crashed we cannot say each computers
crashed we could say each computer
crashed
but we cannot say each computer is
crashed each of the
computers is okay okay next one
each one of the companies donated
to charity each one of the companies
donated to charity
that means in some situation like an
event for example
and all of the companies that attended
the event uh so
each one of those companies we want to
emphasize
uh the individual companies there so
each one of the companies donated to
charity
so again i’m using the plural form so
i could say each company donated to
charity as well
that’s okay all right let’s move on to
some more examples with the singular
form so
each person helped clean the parch each
person helped clean the park
so maybe it’s a volunteer organization
and many people come
and you can say each person helped clean
the park so
again emphasizing the individuals there
finally marathon participants
will each receive a t-shirt
marathon participants will each receive
a t-shirt
so that means if you participate in the
marathon
you will receive a t-shirt and that’s
true for 100
of marathon participants so we could use
maybe all to talk about this or maybe
even every
to talk about these situations we would
just need to make some changes
like for example all marathon
participants will receive a t-shirt is
okay
as well or what’s another good example
like all of the companies
donated to charity that’s okay too so
the difference in those cases is just
that
each gives more emphasis to an
individual
all is more about like a large number
of something so to finish this lesson i
want to look at a few
example sentences and point out why
they’re natural or
unnatural so i hope that this helps you
first
actually you’ll notice these are very
similar first one this sentence is okay
she wears earrings on each ear
she wears earrings on each ear so i’ve
used each in this sentence
and it sounds natural because there are
only two in most situations i think
people probably have just two ears so
each
means one two both of them she wears
earrings on each ear sounds
very natural the next example sentence
is not natural though she wears earrings
on every ear
this sounds strange because every is
used to refer to
part of a group so we use two
for each and we only have two ears for
most of us
so every refers to something with like
more than two
in this case it sounds really strange
because we don’t expect someone to have
more than two ears so every sounds
bizarre
i don’t recommend it same thing with the
next one
she wears earrings on all ears
so again all refers to a large number of
something
so all ears does not sound natural
because we have just
two ears so in cases like these like
maybe you’re talking about body parts
for example
it’s going to sound much more natural to
use each when you’re talking about
something
you have only two of however let’s go on
to these next three sentences which all
sound natural
she wears a ring on every finger
she wears a ring on every finger this
sentence sounds fine because
for most people we have 10 fingers it’s
a large number
and so we want to say in this case she
wears
a ring so one ring on every finger so
we’re emphasizing
these individual parts of the hole of
all of our fingers this group that is
our fingers
the next one is also natural she wears
rings
on all her fingers you might hear some
people drop
her she wears rings on all fingers so
that means
we’re emphasizing like the total here so
we’re not talking
so much about the individual fingers but
just all
she wears rings on all her fingers
finally
she wears a ring on each finger is also
okay to use so she wears a ring on each
finger if you really want to emphasize
one by one these individual fingers
so this one has the strongest feeling of
like individuality one by one every
would be
next she wears a ring on every finger
and then when you want to emphasize like
a group
feeling she wears rings on all her
fingers
so just keep in mind sentences like
these are definitely not
natural and i don’t recommend you use
them because it’s going to sound really
strange
so try to focus on sentences like these
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