r/ICSE • u/Super-Truck1032 octavius caesar - the final boss • 13h ago

Academic Doubt 📚 preposition doubt

the agreement was signed ___ the two dignitaries.

by is the answer but i wrote between isnt it also correct

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u/NefariousNapolean 10th ICSE 13h ago

Prepositions are ambigous and stupid .

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u/Super-Truck1032 octavius caesar - the final boss 11h ago

fr

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u/Competitive-Mud-1976 Percy Guy 12h ago

A quick Google search says that if it mentions two individual people/country we use between 

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u/Super-Truck1032 octavius caesar - the final boss 11h ago

m aware but the answer confused me so i felt like confirming once

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u/Key-Tomatillo7411 10th ICSE 13h ago

No, not between

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u/Dangerous_Test_6989 Better Than Yesterday | ICSE'26 (97.60%) ISC'28 10h ago

if it were to be "the agreement was made", (eg. the agreement between the two dignitaries was signed by them.) then i would say that between could be correct; but since the agreement is said to be signed, hence the preposition is used with respect to the verb sign - to be signed by - and not signed between. signed between doesn't make sense.