Every is a determiner that refers to each member of a group of three or more as part of a whole set. Small words in English can cause long pauses in real conversations. One of those tiny words is every. Learners see it in songs, rules, and exam questions, yet still feel unsure when they have to use it in their own sentences. This article walks you through how every works so you can speak and ...
Definition of every determiner in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
You use every in order to say how often something happens or to indicate that something happens at regular intervals. We were made to attend meetings every day. A burglary occurs every three minutes in London. She will need to have the therapy repeated every few months.
Use the adjective every to talk about all examples of something or all the members of a group. If you invite every classmate to your party, you're asking all 30 of them to come.
The grammar of these expressions requires a singular pronoun, as in Every car must have its brakes tested, but the meaning often leads people to use the plural pronoun, as in Every car must have their brakes tested.
You’ve just had a look at these three very basic, very useful quantifying adjectives: each, every, and all. Here’s a summary of what we covered about how to use them in different types of sentences:
We use every + singular noun to refer individually to all the members of a complete group of something: There’s a photograph on the wall of every child in the school.
