Perhatikan penggunaan each other dan one another dalam kalimat-kalimat berikut:
- Lutfi and Rita love each other. (Lutfi dan Rita saling mencintai).
- On Idul Fitri Day, Moslems shake hands one another. (Pada Hari Raya Idul Fitri, Muslim berjabat tangan satu sama lain.)
- We must help one another. (Kita harus tolong menolong satu sama lain.) --> Lebih dari dua orang
- We must help each other. (Kirta harus saling tolong menolong.) --> Hanya dua orang
- Indonesia and the USA have agreed to repect each other.
- The couple looked at each other, then burst out laughing.
- Why don't we share ideas with one another?
- Both groups finally decided to help each other.
Ingat each other dan one another digunakan setelah kata kerja baik kata kerja tanpa kata depan maupun kata kerja yang selalu diikuti oleh kata depan (laugh at, share with, rely on, dan banyak lagi.)
Reciprocal Pronoun: each other dan one another (saling, satu sama lain) dalam bentuk possessive (kepunyaan) nya menggunakan apostrof s. Contoh: each other's; one another's. Perhatikan contoh-contoh nya dalam kalimat-kaliat berikut:
Reciprocal Pronoun: each other dan one another (saling, satu sama lain) dalam bentuk possessive (kepunyaan) nya menggunakan apostrof s. Contoh: each other's; one another's. Perhatikan contoh-contoh nya dalam kalimat-kaliat berikut:
- They appreciate other other's privacy.
- Dina and Dana admire each other's beauty.
Latihan. Isilah dengan each other atau one another.
- Sherly and Peter promised not to hurt.....................
- The villagers visited .....................
- Most students shared information with.........................
- The group leader said: "We must help .....................in order that we will be stronger.
- I think you'd better respect..................... You two have been friends for a long time.