Name: English Grammar: Correlative Conjunctions (NEITHER & NOR, EITHER & OR, BOTH & AND...)
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Modal verbs - A2

"Neither you nor your hairy-ass
friend can come to my party!"

Today's lesson is going to be on correlative
conjunctions, or let's say conjunctive pairs

Mr. E made a statement where he said two things
using two words to bring two statements together,

two related ideas and
brought them together.

In this case: "you" and
"your hairy-ass friend".

I want to go to the board and I want to explain
the correlative conjunctions to you, because

I know conjunctions you've heard of, but this
will be a little twist that can add to your

English to make it more advanced.
Are you ready?

All right, so E talked about correlative conjunctions,
and what I want to do is just go over conjunctions

So, conjunctions like: "for", "so",
"because", "and", and "or" are easy.

"My friend and I", "You",
or "Him", or "Her". Right?

And we use these to join words,
clauses, and phrases together. Right?

"The people I saw and my
best friends were happy."

So, a correlative conjunction is the same kind
of thing as, like, your joining statements,

When I say pairs, it's like imagine a boy and
a girl together and they're a happy couple,

So, "either", "or" is one
of the first examples.

Or you've seen "or", but what I want
to talk about is "either", "or".

"Either you pay me the money
now or I break your legs."

You have a choice; whether you like
that choice or not, it's a choice.

In the first case we're saying: "Not only
was she happy"-there was a surprise-

"but she also got married",
there's even more surprise.

So, in this correlative pair we
talk about the idea of surprise.

You put this plus this, there's
a surprise, plus more surprise.

In our third case we
talk about negation.

That's what I was talking about, Mr. E
here said: "Not you, nor your friend".

A lot of students have a problem with
"neither", "nor" or "neither", "nor".

You'll hear people say:
"Neither this" or "nor".

My idea on that or my take on that is this: A
lot of educated people will say: "Neither",

And Americans tend to
say: "Neither" more.

Is there really a
grammatical difference?

Not at all, but just keep that in mind that if
you hear someone say: "Neither" they probably

have gone to university, a little bit more
educated, and "neither" is just more commonplace.

It's not better, it's not worse, it's
just a preference in style. Okay?

"Neither", "nor", it means
not this and not that.

People confuse "either", "or"
because you have a choice.

This means: This is not true and that's
not true, so both are not true anymore.

And finally: "both", "and"
is inclusive or including.

You know: "Both my brother and
my father love baseball."

"Both", my brother, I am saying there are two
parts, and the secondary part is included

with the first part, so
it's an including. Cool?

We're going to go to the board, of course you
know I'm going to give you a bit of a quiz.

I'll go over it quickly for
you once again just in case.

"Either", "or" is choice; "not only", "but
also" is surprise and it's two surprises,

the first case is a surprise, the second one
is even more of a surprise; "neither", "nor"

is negation, meaning no, x, nothing, no; and
"both", "and" is included, so you're including

this with that, both she and he were happy.
Right? Cool?

All right, so once again we're
going to do our magic board.

Got to do a little bit of a quiz, and I'll
give you a little bit extra on conjunctions

Okay, so you'll remember we were talking about,
you know, correlative conjunctions, and what

I want you to do just before I got to the
quiz, because I said we were doing a quiz

-which is true-I want to show
you how they work in sentences

I think one picture is worth a thousand words,
so we're going to do, well, four pictures.

So: "They told me to either buy
the shoes or put them back."

So in this case you can see the choice, you
can buy or put them back, but you have to

Okay? And that's what the
"either" is indicating here.

Let's do the next one: "Not only did it smell",
okay just to let you know, when you say something

smells in English, it's
not usually positive.

We talk about a scent, someone has a
pleasant scent, not a pleasant smell.

So: "Not only did it smell", that's my first part,
it's like: "It smelled. I didn't expect it to smell".

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English Grammar: Correlative Conjunctions (NEITHER & NOR, EITHER & OR, BOTH & AND...)

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