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Distributive pronoun information


A distributive pronoun considers members of a group separately, rather than collectively.

They include either, neither and others.

  • "to each his own" — 'each2,(pronoun)' Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (2007)
  • "Men take each other's measure when they react." — Ralph Waldo Emerson[1]

Besides distributive pronouns, there are also distributive determiners (also called distributive adjectives). The pronouns and determiners often have the same form:

  • Each went his own way (each used as a pronoun, without an accompanying noun)
  • Each man went his own way (each used as a determiner, accompanying the noun man)
  • Each of the answers is correct (each used as a pronoun, with an accompanying prepositional phrase of the answers)
  1. ^ William Malone Baskervill and James Witt Sewell, An English Grammar Archived 2005-09-19 at the Wayback Machine, 1896.

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