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GoshaF Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

each/every time

"... and every time* when he was going out, he could not fail to pass the door of his landady's kitchon, almost always wide open to the stairs. And *each time he passed by, the young man felt this painful and cowardly sensation..."

Can one arbitrarily switch "each" and "every" in this example, or would it change the meaning in any way?
  

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` Can one arbitrarily switch "each" and "every" in this example? Yes, one can, and there is no change in the meaning. ' Rover

  • ` Can one arbitrarily switch "each" and "every" in this example?
  • Yes, one can, and there is no change in the meaning.
  • ' Rover
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Can one arbitrarily switch "each" and "every" in this example?
Yes, one can, and there is no change in the meaning.

We also commonly use them together for emphasis:

'He takes his mother flowers each and every time he goes to visit her.'

Rover

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