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<i>Every 3</i> in <i>OED</i>: A grammatically neglected determiner (or two)

Author(s) -

Arne Olofsson

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

nordic journal of english studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.18

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 1654-6970

pISSN - 1502-7694

DOI - 10.35360/njes.360

Subject(s) - political science , determiner , linguistics , english language , economic history , media studies , humanities , history , sociology , art , philosophy , noun

It is not unusual for grammar books to treat the determiner every as having one function only, viz. that of more or less parallelling each, disregarding cases such as There is every reason and I wish you every happiness. The present article is an attempt to redress the balance by critically assessing presentations in some of the major grammar books and in the canonical set of five dictionaries for learners. The end result is a tentative description of three different uses of every, EVERYeach, EVERYpossible and EVERYcomplete.

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