{"id":1724,"date":"2004-01-25T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/01\/25\/1724.html"},"modified":"2004-01-25T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2004-01-25T21:30:32","slug":"between-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/01\/25\/between-each\/","title":{"rendered":"Between each"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here's a grammatical construct I see fairly often in submitted stories:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>* There was a gap between each of the books.<\/p>\n<p>* A divider separated each shoe.<\/p>\n<p>* Put a blank line between each paragraph.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I view these as mistakes.  Using this sort of construct is an easy mistake to make: I often find myself wanting to say that last one, for example.  But <span class=\"word-as-word\">each<\/span> refers to each individual item as a single thing, while <span class=\"word-as-word\">between<\/span> and similar words should (imo) be used to talk about two or more adjacent things.<\/p>\n<p>So I advise rewriting in various ways:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There were gaps between the books.<\/p>\n<p>There was a gap between each pair of books.<\/p>\n<p>There was a gap between each book and the next.<\/p>\n<p>A divider separated each shoe from its neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Put a blank line after each paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>Use blank lines to separate paragraphs.<\/p>\n<p>Use blank lines between paragraphs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And so on.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a grammatical construct I see fairly often in submitted stories: * There was a gap between each of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}