Difference between each and every

Hi,

They are often interchanged. However, here are a couple of comments.

I spoke to each person in the room - focuses on the idea of the people in the room as individuals.

I spoke to every person in the room - focuses on them more as a group. 'I didn't forget anybody.'

Best wishes, Clive

each and every can be interchangeably used but as far as the concrete differences are concerned between them are that-
1. 'each' is used for two or more than two things where as 'every' is used to represent three or more than three.
2. 'each' gives us a idea about the single's point of view where as 'every' gives us idea about the point of view of all as a whole's point of view.

Try this: each time when reading good stuff and encountering them, try to interchange them and feel the difference. Then you will get a good sense about when to use one of them.

‘Each’ and ‘every’ are determiners, words that are ‘used with singular nouns to indicate quantity’. There are differences between the two that are important to grasp for usage, though.

1. ‘Each’ is used when there are two objects; here ‘every’ is not used. For example,

• - He wore bracelets on each hand (note: singular noun).
• - There were two of them. They each