You use every in order to say how often something happens or to indicate that something happens at regular intervals. We were made to attend meetings every day. A burglary occurs every three minutes in London. She will need to have the therapy repeated every few months.
The grammar of these expressions requires a singular pronoun, as in Every car must have its brakes tested, but the meaning often leads people to use the plural pronoun, as in Every car must have their brakes tested.
Definition of every determiner in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Use the adjective every to talk about all examples of something or all the members of a group. If you invite every classmate to your party, you're asking all 30 of them to come.
each: used before a noun phrase to indicate the recurrent, intermittent, or serial nature of a thing: every third day, every now and then, every so often every bit ⇒ (used in comparisons with as) quite; just; equally: every bit as funny as the other show
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