Distributive adjectives - Video

WATCH THE VIDEO AND REPEAT:
"ALL MY FRIENDS AND I GO TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY.
THIS YEAR WE HAVE A NEW TABLET EACH.
MY FRIEND LISA GOES TO ANOTHER SCHOOL. BOTH OF US PLAY TENNIS."
Words which refer to indefinite quantities, or to definite but unknown people and objects, are called determiners. There are two types of determiners: quantitative adjectives and distributive adjectives.
Distributive adjectives are normally used with singular nouns. They include all, every, each, both, either and neither.
WATCH THE VIDEO AND REPEAT:
"ALL MY FRIENDS AND I GO TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY.
THIS YEAR WE HAVE A NEW TABLET EACH.
MY FRIEND LISA GOES TO ANOTHER SCHOOL. BOTH OF US PLAY TENNIS."
ALL means "every one" or "the complete number or amount". We use it before a countable noun or an uncountable noun.
When ALL refers to a whole class of people or things, we don’t use THE:
We use ALL OF before personal pronouns (Me, you, us, them...):
Watch out! We don't use THE with time expressions:
ANOTHER and SOME MORE mean "additional" or "one more":
OTHER means "different" or "the second of two items":
When OTHER is a pronoun, it becomes THE OTHERS:
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We use EACH to refer to the individual things or persons in a group of two or more. We use EACH with singular nouns:
We use EACH OF with personal pronouns:
We use EACH after the price of things.
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We use BOTH to refer to two things or people together:
We use BOTH OF before a personal pronoun:
We use BOTH + adjective AND + adjective to emphasise the link between two things.
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We use EITHER before a singular countable noun to talk about two choices or possibilities:
We use EITHER OF with personal pronouns and demonstrative adjectives:
We use EITHER ... OR ... when there are two possibilities.
We use NEITHER to make a negative statement about two people or things at the same time:
We use NEITHER OF with personal pronouns, possessive and demonstrative adjectives and THE:
We use NEITHER ... NOR ... to connect two or more negative alternatives:
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