Today's lesson: each other vs. one another.
Each other is used when referring to only two people.
One another is used when referring to more than two people.
Two's a party. Three's a bigger party. Amen.
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3 comments:
Ok, since you're doing these grammar tidbits, I'd like to ask you something that's been bugging me for a while: is the chorus of the song "Chasing Cars" grammatically correct?
If I lay here,
if I just lay here,
would you lie with me
and just forget the world?
The "lay" part is the part that seems wrong to me. I know that "lay" is the past tense of "lie," but I'm unsure as to whether the word "if" makes the tense subjunctive, therefore making the word "lay" appropriate in this situation.
Help me!
Haha--I heard this song yesterday and thought the SAME thing.
It should be "lie," especially since he is speaking in the present tense. And too, he says "would you LIE with me" in the same breath. That should have been the first indication that they should have looked this up! So unless he is talking about the other meaning of lay, it should be "lie." :-)
This is a tough one, but usually "lay" applies to objects (kind of like sit and set).
And of course by "other meaning of lay" I mean laying an egg...what did you think I meant??
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