each other is used. When refering to more than
two people
one another is used ( but this rule is not always observed)
: Maria and Juan gave
each other gold rings on their wedding day.
The kids spent the afternoon kicking the ball to
one another .
Reciprocal pronouns can be used in the genitive case : They helped to
look after
each other’s children; The group of students often stayed in
one another’s houses and did their lessons together. The reciprocal
pronouns are not used in the function of the subject . Reciprocal
pronouns in the common case are used in the function of the object, in
the genitive case and they are used in the function of the attribute :
Elizabeth
and
George
talked
and
found
each other delightful.(Aldington)-object ; They looked at
each other’s face for a
while.- attribute.
Conjunctive pronouns are
who, what, whose, which not only
point back to some person or thing mentioned before, but also have
conjunctive power introducing subject, object and predicative clauses
: I don’t want to hear
what you have come for.(Galsworthy)- subject
clause. In the clause they introduce- they perform the functions of the
subject, attribute , object :
What is he- is not important(subject); She
wanted to know the subject
which was interesting for her parents as
well .-attribute.
What she concealed - everybody found out.-object.
Defining pronouns are
all, each, every, everybody, everything, either, both, other, another . These pronouns are used in the functions
of subject, predicative, object, attribute : He just loved me, that is
