Used when referring to all the members of a group of three or more Every bit as funny as the other show The meaning of every is being each individual or part of a group without exception
How to use every in a sentence. Every third day, every now and then, every so often every bit ⇒ (used in comparisons with as) quite Being one of a group or series taken collectively
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. 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. Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing We stopped for refreshments every ten miles The alarm is going off every few minutes
The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc. Used before a noun phrase to indicate the recurrent, intermittent, or serial nature of a thing
