0
Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Each vs every

1. The visitors, to each of whom we gave a souvenir, left.
2. The visitors, each of whom we gave a souvenir, left.

Are these two sentences ungrammatical?
  

Top answer

Anonymous Are these two sentences ungrammatical? No. Where is the 'every' of your subject line?

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Are these two sentences ungrammatical?
  • No.
  • Where is the 'every' of your subject line?
Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

5 Answers
0
AnonymousAre these two sentences ungrammatical?
No. Where is the 'every' of your subject line?
0
0
Sorry. The title of my question should have been: Each in non defining clauses

Are you OK with #2, which is written without "to"?
0
0
AnonymousAre you OK with #2, which is written without "to"?
Yes. These are both grammatical:

We gave him a drink.
We gave a drink to him.

With the fronting of the object, the preposition is optional—or perhaps I should say irrelevant.
0
0
Mister MicawberThese are both grammatical ... With the fronting of the object, the preposition is optional—or perhaps I should say irrelevant.
But how do you feel about the interrogative form? There was a very lengthy discussion of this many years ago. There were a lot of opinions, but no definitive conclusion that I could discern.

Who did we giv
0
0
CalifJimPersonally, I've never been able to decide.
I don't let either of them bother me. There are more important barriers to communication. (Have a look at this one, for instance: )
0

Related Questions