I often hear people use “between” when they mean “among”.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> If you look up the origin of “between”, you see that the tw<\/em> in “betw<\/em>een” is related to the tw<\/em> in “tw<\/em>o”. You can use this as a mnemonic to remind you that you should use\u00a0“between”\u00a0when expressing a relationship for two items and therefore that you should use “among” otherwise (for three or more items).<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I often hear people use “between” when they mean “among”. Problem: The preposition “between” should not be used when expressing a relationship for three or more items. Explanation: The preposition “between” means in the space separating (two people, objects, etc.) or intermediate to. The primary definition of the\u00a0preposition “among” is in the midst of. If…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-english-blunders","category-prepositions","category-versus"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe preposition “between” should not be used when expressing a relationship for three or more items.<\/p>\n
\nThe preposition “between” means in the space separating (two people, objects, etc.)<\/em> or intermediate to<\/em>. The primary definition of the\u00a0preposition “among” is in the midst of<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nUse “between” when you’re talking about two items; use “among” when you’re talking about three or more items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"