Timeline for "the set of elements >whose each< pair is ... " - Is this acceptable?
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| Apr 17, 2015 at 2:28 | comment | added | Man_From_India | @DCShannon I'm sorry, but none sounds off to me :-( Anyway I am a non native speaker. A native speaker can comment correctly about whether it sounds good for obvious reason you know. But in this case I think native speakers are divided into two groups. And that is also not surprising. It might be based on their origin. That is all I can guess :-) | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 18:57 | comment | added | DCShannon | I think it's probably the concept of possessing an 'each' that's bothering me. You could have every, as that's all of them all at once, but it seems odd to consider owning the idea of a specific element in the set for all elements in the set. "My every attempt" vs "My each attempt", "His every word" vs "His each word", "Their every thought" vs "Their each thought". You're really saying none of those sound off to you? | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 18:51 | comment | added | DCShannon | The problem I have with this is not each/every or whose on an inanimate object. It's 'each' immediately after 'whose'. "Whose each" sounds insane. "Whose every" maybe, "in which each" sure, but "whose each" just makes my ears bleed. It's just too much of a mismatch in terms of talking about a collection versus the individual elements. I don't think it's a hard and fast grammar rule, so I can't say it's ungrammatical, it just sounds wrong to someone who's heard hundreds of hours of conversations about sets. | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 14:39 | comment | added | Man_From_India | @FumbleFingers I am not very sure how convincing my answer is. I just tried to include how much grammar I know about this. I am waiting for Araucaria's answer. | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 14:36 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | They might be "good examples", but judging by current vote totals they haven't convinced everyone that OP's usage is valid. Hopefully your answer addresses the problem by showing why it's okay, rather than simply citing other writers who've used the format. | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 14:31 | history | edited | Man_From_India | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2015 at 14:31 | comment | added | Man_From_India | @FumbleFingers I will change that :-) I am doing weird stuff today :-) for reason unknown. And in your answer you have cited some good examples. | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 13:57 | history | answered | Man_From_India | CC BY-SA 3.0 |