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Bonded pair or lone pair?

Exercise and reference answers

Items
  1. Item
    Shared between two atoms
    Category
    Bonded pair
  2. Item
    Makes the covalent bond
    Category
    Bonded pair
  3. Item
    Not involved in bonding
    Category
    Lone pair
  4. Item
    Sits on one atom alone
    Category
    Lone pair
Categories
  1. Item
    Bonded pair
  2. Item
    Lone pair

Explanation

Only one of them holds the atoms together. Source: syllabus Chemistry, Ch 4 Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure.
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