Between... among... Between friends, among friends...
Today we'll study the difference between between and... Wow!
Let's compare between and among.
Hi, guys and welcome to Russian with Passion!
Today we'll compare between and among.
Some of my students confuse these words
and we need to straighten things out, let's do that!
At the end of this class, you will have a small exercise to practice.
Between is used to refer to two things which are clearly separated.
It can be two groups, one person and a group, two people,
just two things which are clearly separated.
In other words between means the relationship of one thing to another thing
or one thing to a group of things or one group of things to another group of things.
I'm standing between two trees. One tree here, one tree here.
Our holiday house is between the mountains and the sea.
So the mountains are on one side and the sea is on the other side.
Two separate things.
He gave his kids ten dollars and told them to share it between them.
So two kids, they're separate and you can say 'between them'.
There are several words which are usually used with the word between.
A connection between, a link between, to choose between, to divide between.
There's a strong connection between a mother and her children.
I can't choose between going to the cinema with my friends
or just staying in and watching the TV lying on my couch.
Am I a couch potato? No, I will go to the movies.
Among is used to talk about things which are not clearly separated,
because they are part of a group, crowd or mass of objects.
So in other words among is a collective or loose relationship of things, of several things.
She found her ring on the ground among flowers.
There were many flowers, a group of flowers.
And there it was, the ring among the flowers.
They wanted to be among friends. A group of people, friends.
Among can also mean that you belong to this group and share the characteristics of this group.
A girl of 15 was among injured. So she was injured too.
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