Correct use of 'Between' and 'Among' in Spoken English


1. Between is use to indicate the position, it means that something – such as a person or object – is in the middle of two other people or things
Ex - Reena is sitting between her friends Shyam and David.

2. Between is also used to speak about the distance that separates two things. We can talk about the distance between two cities, two objects, two people, and even two ideas.
Ex - The keys are on the table, between the flowerpot and the orange juice.

3. Between can be used to talk about intervals or periods of time.
There are hundreds of miles of beautiful countryside between Agra and Delhi.

4. Among means that a person or object is surrounded by a group of things.

5. Among is to say that someone or something is a member of a larger set.

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