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| <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><strong>We use </strong><strong>'each other'</strong><strong> when <span class="definition">each member of a pair or group does something to or for the other(s). </span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Consider these two contrasting examples:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><img height="185" id="1404" style="width: 82px; height: 121px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1404_bf62d3d6e1e380f635167b9c7ea4c60b.jpg"> <span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'>They looked at <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">themselves</span> in the mirror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'>= The man looked at <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">himself</span> and the boy looked at <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">himself.</span></span></span></span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><img height="120" id="502" style="width: 102px; height: 93px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/502_fcfa1ef0851fb62e93e1fb187297af2a.png"> <span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'><font color="#000000">They looked at </font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">each other</span><font color="#000000">. <span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;'>= He looked at her and she looked at him.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style=' |