Only a few things need slight changes: "Why don't you succeed..." (no "get") "...she seems to be praying for things to be the same for her." ("for her" usually goes near the end of this kind of expression") "...working hard to keep..." (Not "for keeping") " I pray for things to go well for you" (like "for her" in the earlier example, "for you" goes near the end of this kind of expression)

They are essentially the same in meaning. Every comes from a contraction of "ever" and "each". Ever + each = every. Chaucer spelt it as "everich". The "ever" simply intensifies the sense of being part of a larger whole. But in modern English only "each" can be used with "of them" ("each of them" not "every of them".), and only each can be used on its own as a noun ("Each came prepared" not "every came prepared") Also, "every" is never used when there are only two parts of a larger whole. If there are only two cats, you can only use "each cat", not "every cat" If there are more than than two, then you can use "each" or "every". Since "years" will generally imply a larger number (the years one experiences) for most purposes "each year" OR "every year" will be equally acceptable.

They are both correct and both mean the same thing.

Fear and dread are stative verbs - the subject himself/herself experiences the state of fear from something (the object of the fear). Scare (and frighten) are causative verbs - the subject causes someone else to experience fear Afraid is not a verb. It's just a verbal adjective (a past participle, in this case) , the same as "frightened" "scared" . The actual verb whence it comes is afray (or affray), but it is not used very often anymore. Just as laid is the past tense of lay, afraid is the past tense of afray.

The ch with the "(t)sh"-sound is usually where an original "k"-sound was softened by the influence of a front vowel (usually i and e, and certain pronunciations of a) . The main exceptions to "ch" being pronounced as "(t)sh" when near front vowels are words borrowed from Greek (character, chemistry, ichor, etc)

It goes back to the fact that English originally had a plural form of "one", which usually meant "alone; only". For example, in Blickling Homily XV: Spel Be Petrus 7 Paulus: Þonne be þære lare mines lareowes þe þu me befrune, ne magan þær nænige oþre men onfon, butan þa ane þe mid clænum geleafan hie to þæm gegearwiaþ. "Then concerning the lore of my Teacher, about which you question me, no others may receive it save those alone who prepare themselves for it with pure belief." þa ane "those alone" Ane here is the plural of an "one". But eventually English lost most of its grammatical inflexions, including this "-e" resulting in plural "ane" looking exactly the same as singular "an". So the adjective "one" (which modern "an" is merely an unstressed variation of) in English had, and still has to a limited extent, this plural version, despite how strange it seems for "one" to be used in the plural. It is just a reality of the language. Here's an example of plural "an" from Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" - "there he dwelled an eight days" (Book XVII Chapter IV) It is still normal in "a few" and in the negative adjective "no" (short for none "not one")". "A few words", "No words" Otherwise - in Modern English - it is usually only found in more informal/conversational English and accompanied by a fairly emphatic adjective (such as "astonishing" in your example) "an unimpressive ten days" "a measly six dollars"