Fire Collection
Exercise sentences:
- A bird goes into the bird house.
- Jack and his mom look at each other.
A bird goes into the bird house.
- goes
- bird
- a
- into
- house
- the
- bird
- house
- bird
< 1 min
Second “bird” is an adjective modifying “house”, while the first “bird” is the subject.
Jack and his mom look at each other.
- look
- and
- Jack
- mom
- his (Jack’s)
- at
- other
- each
- other
- and
New Oxford Dictionary on “each other”:
pronoun
used to refer to each member of a group when each does something to or for other members: they communicate with each other in French.
The only other dictionary I checked that also had “each other” as an entry was Web3 (also as pronoun).
They don’t have to be a single node though. It just tells us they function together as a pronoun if the use in the sentence matches the definition.
Determining which modifies which was a bit tricky (and probably not too important). I settled with “each” modifying “other” because the determiner definition of “each” makes more sense than the adjective definition of “other”. New Oxford Dictionary:
determiner
used to refer to every one of two or more people or things, regarded and identified separately: each battery is in a separate compartment | each one of us was asked what went on.
adjective
1 denoting a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about: stick the camera on a tripod or some other means of support | this is our last resort—there’s no other way of reaching an agreement.
• denoting the second of a specified or implied group of two: the other side of the page.
• denoting those remaining in a group or those not already mentioned: they took the other three away in an ambulance.
2 further; additional: one other word of advice.
20 minutes. Almost all the time was spent on deciding which of “other” and “each” should be modifier and modificand. I also got a bit distracted. Probably not worth the