What are distributive adjectives?

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Nov 10, 2017

A distributive adjective is one used to refer to each object in a group of things.

Explanation:

Examples of distributive adjectives include: each, every, neither, either, any, one, both.

For instance: in the sentence "Each of the students had their own materials," the word "each" refers to every individual student separately, as opposed to each student sharing materials.

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