Marston was an early seventeenth-century dramatist, and it is likely

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Marston was an early seventeenth-century dramatist, and  it is likely that him and Shakespeare borrowed ideas from each other.

A) it is likely that him and Shakespeare borrowed ideas from each other
B) they likely borrowed ideas from each other
C) him and Shakespeare likely borrowed ideas from each other
D) it is likely that himself and Shakespeare borrowed ideas from each other
E) it is likely that he and Shakespeare borrowed ideas from each other

I understand that he should be used instead of him. but do you use "one another" for two parties? I learnt that "each other" is for two parties while "one another" is for many parties. if i'm right then why was E chosen as the answer? if I'm wrong, can someone please tell me to my face and also the reason(s). thank you .

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Abhishek009 · Answer

Plz refer to the following link : https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org ... ne-another each other is common to all the options so this must not be the point of consideration... The correct answer must include " He and Shakespeare " none other than option (E) correctly refers to the same. Each other refers to two people One another refers to more than two people

Ekland · Answer

What!
I was actually staring at the "one another'' in the option E and getting frustrated.
Hei did I post the wrong thing?

anyway  Abhishek009  so from your link "one another" could be used like "each other". is that acceptable in GMAT as well? cos I'm learning GMAT grammar not just grammar.

Abhishek009 · Answer

Here's what Magoosh has to say - “each other” and “one another” These two phrases are a way to talk about 1-on-1 relationships within a group. The first thing to appreciate is that these two are entirely interchangeable: “each other” and “one another” mean the same thing. It may be that “one another” is slightly more formal, but that will not make a difference in a GMAT SC question. For both of these, the subject has to be plural. We cannot talk about “each student” doing something to “one another” — that makes no sense. For this idiom, it must be the whole group, all the students, who do something “to each other” or “with one another”. (The actual preposition used would depend on the appropriate idiom for the verb of the sentence.) We use this idiom, “each other” or “one another”, when, in a group, there is some relation or connection or action that is true between each pair of two people in the group. If I say … 6) All the students like each other. … this means we could pick, from the pool of students, any random pair, in that pair, each person would like the other. That would be true for all possible pairs one could pick from the total pool. These two structures, “each other” or “one another”, would only be used in the rare situation in which something were equally and mutually true for every possible pair in a group. That’s a rare situation. Notice, neither of these structures could be used in a situation in which each person in the group is competing with all the rest and wants to be victorious over the others. Copied from : https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-sente ... and-logic/

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