Hi everybody,
“share with each other” is quite all right but is it natural to say “share together”?
(I’ve found only 5 results for it on the BNC)
Many thanks
Nessie 
I feel ‘each other’ gives a kind of sense that the conduct is between two parties, not very strictly though. If the verb refers to more than two parties, than ‘one another’ is supposed to be applied. But it seems to me that these two usages have become more and more crossing-over these days.
To share together definitely suggests more than two parties are involed and gives a sense that something is shared by all.
Just my two cents.
Haihao
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I’d say that if someone were to use ‘share together’ it would probably be used with the sense that two or more people had a common experience at the same time (i.e. when they were together).
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Like “experience together”, right? “Share with each other” has a feeling of “divide” and “share together” one of “join”.
I have a feeling this is how we should read the example below:
“Although we are not told it, Mary’s home would certainly have had a fire in the one and only downstairs room, and there the Holy Family would have met to eat and to share together.”
[color=blue]although we are not told it/Mary’s home would certainly have had a fire in the one and only downstairs room/and there the Holy Family would have met/to eat and to share/together
But then "together seems redundant because “met” carries the meaning of “be together”.
Hm, there are 40 examples of “meet together” in the BNC. So maybe the collocation in the above is actually “meet together” and “share” is not collocated with “together” there.
I’d say it’s the same here:
[color=blue]It may seem at times that there is little common ground between the two generations, but if a parent is patient and ready to take an interest, and to listen as well as to give advice or pass criticism, there is plenty to talk about and share/together.
The “together” is not really part of “share”.
Thank you very much dear Amy, Molly and Haihao
And what do you think about these sentences:
Five children share a small loaf of bread together
Five children share a small loaf of bread with each other
Five children share together a small loaf of bread
The love of music we share together
The love of music we share with each other
Many thanks
Nessie
Hi,
I feel the addition of ‘together’ strengthens the idea of communality.
Alan
Would you say the same of “meet together”?
Sure would.
Alan
Oh yes, sir, you remind me that expressions such as ‘let’s get together’ could mean a date invitation.
Haihao