Suppose I have a sentence of the form:
Ahead I see a red door and a blue door – the path to each is similar.
Is this grammatically correct? It sounds odd if I pluralise "path", but this version doesn't seem to make sense either.
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Your sentence is grammatically correct; in fact, pluralizing paths makes it incorrect.
Because the word each is singular, path should likewise be singular. If that is at all confusing, let me explain further: Though each is often notionally plural, which is to say that it evokes an image of more than one entity, it is grammatically singular. This is because it refers to each entity individually. As you read in that previous sentence, I said each entity and not *each entities.