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Navitasan Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Each/every/all

Which are correct:
1) There is someone we are all in love with.
2) There is someone all of us are in love with.

3) There is someone we are each in love with.
4) There is someone each of us is in love with.

5) There is someone every one of us is in love with.

In which case:
a) We are all in love with the same person
and in which case
b) We are each in love with a different person.
Gratefully,
Navi.
  

Top answer

, THERE (pointing) is someone we are all in love with , all five are a) , though 3 and 4 are not very idiomatic ways of saying it. , There is SOMEONE we are all in love with , I'd say they're all ambiguous between a) and b) , though 3 and 4 bend toward b) while the others bend toward a) . (You really had 10 examples there, not 5.

— CalifJim

  • , THERE (pointing) is someone we are all in love with , all five are a) , though 3 and 4 are not very idiomatic ways of saying it.
  • , There is SOMEONE we are all in love with , I'd say they're all ambiguous between a) and b) , though 3 and 4 bend toward b) while the others bend toward a) .
  • (You really had 10 examples there, not 5.
  • Did you realize that?
  • ) CJ
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Where there is locative and hence stressed, e.g., THERE (pointing) is someone we are all in love with, all five are a), though 3 and 4 are not very idiomatic ways of saying it.

Where there is existential, thus putting the stress on 'someone', e.g., There is SOMEONE we are all in love with, I'd say they're all ambiguous between a) and
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Thank you very much, Jim!

Yes. Ten examples! I really appreciate your reply!

Gratefully,
Navi.
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