Timeline for Question on interpretation of a sentence involving the phrase "each and every"
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 7:09 | history | edited | Jim Reynolds |
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| Jun 7, 2016 at 2:10 | vote | accept | Jin-Dominique | ||
| Jun 7, 2016 at 0:55 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 0:45 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | In your exact context it's unavoidable that with each and every must be assumed to modify both nouns (it's a normal aspect of English to "delete" the repeated element in and with each and every heavenly human). You can tell this by considering what happens if you assume it only applies to angel. Remove the reference to angels, and you'd be left with ...relationship with God and with heavenly human, which is clearly not a valid usage. | |
| Jun 6, 2016 at 23:10 | history | asked | Jin-Dominique | CC BY-SA 3.0 |