Dicas de Inglês- Gramática e Vocabulário: 2014

quinta-feira, 20 de março de 2014

“Correlative Conjunctions”

These conjunctions connect equal sentence elements together (like two nouns) and are always composed by two words.

Addition	Alternative	Cause-Effect	Comparison	Condition	Contrast
Both…And	Either…Or	So..That	As…As	Whether…Or not	Neither…Nor
Not only…Also	Neither…Nor	Such…That	More…Than
Not only…But also	Rather than		Less…Than
And…Too
And so

You need to be careful with verb agreements and pronoun agreements.

When do we use each connector? Examples.

Please read the following examples for the most popular Correlating Conjunctions.

Both… And - used before two words or phrases connected with and to stress that each is included.
Example: “Both husband and wife loved going to the cinema”

Either… Or - used with or to indicate choices or possibilities.
Example: “What is her name? It’s either Annita or Annalisa”

Neither… Nor - used with nor to indicate two or more people, things, actions, etc., about which something is not true.

Example: “I’m vegan, I eat neither dairy nor eggs”

Whether… Or - used to indicate choices or possibilities.
Example: “Andrew wasn’t sure whether to go on holiday or stay at home”

Not only… But also - used to say that both of two related statements are true.
Example: “It snowed not only in Barcelona, but also in neighbouring cities”

As… As - used to make comparisons.
Example: “James studied as hard as you did”

Modals expressing probability all form their past in the same way.

Verb + Perfect Infinitive

She will have arrived.
It must have arrived.
They may have arrived.

2- Modals expressing other meanings can have different forms in the past.

We must stop to get petrol.
( present obligation)
We had to stop to get petrol.
( Past obligation)