DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS

DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUN

Just see the sentences below.

Each of the boys were involved in this.

Each rode the swing in turn.

Either of these roads doesn’t lead to the airport.

Neither of your logics are logical.

Neither of you can do it.

Either of you can go to the party.

Each, every, either, neither are called DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS because they refer to persons or things ONE at a time. For this reason they are alwys singular and as such is followed by the verb ( In the singular )

It is noteworthy that EACH is used to denote every one of a number or persons or things taken singly.

 Either means the one or other between two.

Neither means none between two. It is the opposite of either.

Please note that most of these words can also be used as adjectives; As.

Each day was painful for her.

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