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This tag is for questions about the difference in meaning between certain words, phrases, or sentences.
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When to use “one other” and “each other”
each other is more strictly reciprocal than one another.
In the Holi festival, people throw colors at one another.
Everyone throws at someone, but there may not be a pair who throw at each other. ( …
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'Half a [noun]' v. 'a half [noun]'
The difference is small, and you would rarely be wrong to use one in place of the other.
I would probably say a half-thing only if that is a common or natural unit. …
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What's the difference between each other and one another in a sentence?
With ‘each other’ the sentence could mean that every pair of things has a link; with ‘one another’ it could mean only that each thing has a link with some other thing.
But where this distinction is i …
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Is there any difference between "sideways" and "to the side"?
Have you ever seen a dog try to carry a long stick sideways through a narrow gate? That is, the dog holds the stick horizontally (rather than, say, dragging it lengthwise). Here, “to the side” would …
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