either的用法?
1、either作主语时谓语动词一般用单数形式,但在否定句中常用复数形式。可单独用,也可和of连用,of后跟复数名词或复数代词,但意义明确时可省略of短语。
2、either在口语中有时也可放在否定句中的名词后加强语气。
3、either用作副词时须放在否定的动词或形容词之后,表示“也(不)”,加强语气。
例:It's not as heavy, either.
这也不那么重。
4、 用于否定句中,表示“两者都不”。
例:There had been no indication of either breathlessness or any loss of mental faculties right until his death.
直到去世,他既没有出现呼吸困难也没有脑功能丧失的迹象。
5、用于表示“两者中任一?”
例:A special Indian drug police that would have the authority to pursue suspects into either country.
有权到这两国中任意一国追捕嫌犯的一位印度缉毒特警。
扩展资料
同义词
1、or
英 [ɔː] 美 [ɔr]
conj. 或,或者;还是;要不然
n. (Or)人名;(土、匈、土库、阿塞、瑞典)奥尔
例:Everyone benefited from limiting their intake of coffee to just one or two cups a day.
每个人都从每天限量喝一杯或两杯咖啡的做法中受益了。
例:When I was nine or ten someone explained to me that when you are grown up you have to work.
在我9岁或10岁的时候,有人跟我解释说,人长大之后必须工作。
2、vel
英 [vel]
conj. 或者(等于or)
abbr. 上等皮纸(vellum);速率(velocity)
例:In Canada, students at that le vel are youth in their preteen years as well as teenagers.
在加拿大,这个阶段的学生和十几岁的青少年都是青春期前的孩子。
作为副词 "也",用于否定句句末
如
There are many trees on either side of the road.
He is not a worker.I am not a worker,either.