Hello, my dear friends! And welcome to Series English! My name is Antonia Romaker
and today we'll talk about the phrases either or and neither nor.
First of all I need to point out that these phrases can be pronounced differently.
There are two ways, you can say either or, neither nor or either or, neither nor.
So this is all about these two words, they can be pronounced differently.
Anyway first of all let's focus on either or, this is the pronunciation I stick to.
Either or connects two choices, whenever you have two choices you can formulate it with the phrase.
An example - I've put some money aside to buy either a new dress or new shoes. What would you pick?
I've put some money aside to buy either - the first choice, a you dress, or - the second choice, new shoes.
One more example - What's the color of his car? Hmm, it's either black or grey, I don't really remember.
Once again two choices - black and grey.
Here we need to remember that we use the phrases to connect two items,
which are the same grammatical type, for example they are both words or they're both phrases or even clauses.
Two more examples. You can stay either with me or with Mary. Here we deal with phrases, short but still.
Either I drive to the airport or I get a taxi. Here we deal with whole clauses.
As you can see the phrase either or can be used with different structures. The same goes for neither nor.
The opposite of either or is neither nor. So we use neither nor in negative statements.
Two examples. We had neither money nor documents with us.
Once again there are two choices two things we deal with.
But the sentence is negative so we had nothing we didn't have anything.
But do not forget that in English usually you do not put two negations within one sentence.
So that's why we don't say we didn't have neither money nor documents with us.
Only one negation, and here it is - neither nor, the phrase is already negative.
The second sentence. Neither our friends nor our families know that we are expecting.
Here we deal with phrases and once again there are two variants, two things.
Anyway that's it for today. Now to practice I want you to create two examples of your own.
At least two, you can make more. Try using these phrases in different contexts.
Practice, create your own examples, create your own sentences
Thus you will remember the theory better and you will be able to use the phrases in your speech,
introduce them into your active vocabulary.
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