Daily Grammar – Week 13

DAILY GRAMMAR (DG) 28-05-2018

1a. Both of them did not attend the meeting. (No)

Neither of them attended the meeting. (Yes)

1b. Not one of them was bothered about the young man’s death. (No)

None of them was bothered about the young man’s death. (Yes)

(In negative clauses, “neither” and “none” are used as the examples indicate.)

2. The man is sitting here since 8:00 a.m.. (No)

The man has been sitting here since 8:00 a.m. (Yes)

(To talk about actions or situations that happened in the past and have continued till the present, the present perfect continuous tense is used.)

3a. I didn’t like the food I bought, nevertheless, I ate it. (No)

I didn’t like the food I bought; nevertheless, I ate it.

3b. She cheated in the exams, therefore, she was expelled. (No)

She cheated in the exams; therefore, she was expelled.

(A semicolon is used to separate two clauses connected by a transitional adverb. A full stop may also be used to arrive at two sentences in the examples. For instance, “She cheated in the exams. Therefore, she was expelled”.)

Did You Know?

The opposite of “déjà-vu” is called “jamais-vu”: it describes the odd feeling that something familiar is actually completely new.