{"id":72265,"date":"2019-09-18T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72265"},"modified":"2019-09-18T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:39:10","slug":"ever-using-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/ever-using-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever | Using Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever <\/b>means at any time<\/i>. It is used mainly in questions.<\/p>\n
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  • Do you ever <\/b>wish you were rich? (= at any time)<\/li>\n
  • Have you ever <\/b>been to England? (= at any time up to the present)<\/li>\n
  • He has been unhappy ever <\/b>since he left home. (= at all times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Ever and always<\/h3>\n

    Ever <\/b>is not normally used to mean always<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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    • I shall always <\/b>remember you. (= NOT I shall ever —)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      But note that ever <\/b>means always<\/i> in a few expressions like forever, ever since, ever after <\/b>and Yours ever. <\/b><\/p>\n

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      • I will love you forever. <\/b><\/li>\n
      • Yours ever. <\/b> (ending a letter to an intimate friend)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Use<\/h3>\n

        Ever<\/b> is used mainly in questions. It is also possible in negative clauses, but never<\/b> is more common than not ever. <\/b><\/p>\n

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        • Have you ever seen <\/b>a whale?<\/li>\n
        • I don’t ever <\/b>want to talk to him again. (OR I never want to talk to him again.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Ever <\/b>is also used after if <\/b>and other words that express a negative idea (like hardly or nobody)<\/p>\n

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          • Nobody ever<\/b> visits them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Ever in affirmative clauses<\/h3>\n

            Ever <\/b>is used in affirmative clauses after superlatives and only. <\/b><\/p>\n

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            • He is the oldest man ever <\/b>to have climbed Everest.<\/li>\n
            • She is the only woman ever <\/b>to have won this award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Ever and before<\/h3>\n

              Ever <\/b>and before <\/b>can both be used to mean at any time in the past<\/i>, but there is a slight difference. Before <\/b>refers to a present event, and asks whether it has happened at another time; ever <\/b>does not refer to a present event.<\/p>\n

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              • Have you been to England before? <\/b> (The hearer is probably in England.)<\/li>\n
              • Have you ever been <\/b>to England? (The hearer is not in England.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                Ever means at any time. It is used mainly in questions. Do you ever wish you were rich? (= at any time) Have you ever been to England? (= at any time up to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1459,1228,1456,1460,1461,1462],"class_list":["post-72265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-always","tag-before","tag-even","tag-ever","tag-how-to-use-ever","tag-when-to-use-ever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72266,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72265\/revisions\/72266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}