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To: jbe who wrote (2527)	5/21/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

This sentence, illustrating one of the uses of the word "both", comes from the Cambridge International Dictionary, an English dictionary for foreigners: Tension continued to grow on both sides of the border. That same thought could be expressed, quite correctly, as follows: Tension continued to grow on each side of the border. Well, actually, I would argue that the two are subtly different. The first, I think, implies a similar cause, that the tensions are rising together and are interrelated. The second could be used if tensions were rising but for totally different and unrelated reasons. Basically, the first sentence implies the same set of tensions on both sides, the second sentence suggests the possibility of different tensions on each side.