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Reciprocal

A construction which indicates that two or more people or things are acting upon one another in the same way.

In English, reciprocal constructions are expressed with the reciprocal pronouns each other and one another.

Examples are:

  • The suspects blamed one another for the crime.
  • They sat for two hours without talking to each other.

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