#️⃣#Since /sɪns/ #preposition, #conjunction, #adverb


✨Since can be used in the following ways:

🚩as a preposition (followed by a noun):

🔹Everything has changed so much since last spring.

🚩as an adverb (without a following noun):

🔹She left home in 1993 and hasn’t been seen since.

🚩as a conjunction (connecting two clauses):

🔹Paul’s had several different jobs since he left school.

🔹Since there’s no more business, we can all go home.

🚩When since is used for talking about time, the verb in the main clause of the sentence is usually in the present perfect or past perfect tense:

🔹It hasn’t rained since the end of July.

🔹He had been composing music since he was ten years old.

🚩Sometimes the present simple or past simple is used in the main clause:

🔹It’s over twenty years since we last met.


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💢#Either /ˈaɪðə $ ˈiːðər/ BrE AmE #conjunction
أمّا؛ أيْ؛ أَيًّا كانَ؛ أيضا فوق ذلك؛ أيّما؛ كل من أي من أحد الأمري


✨Either can be used in the following ways:

🔻in the expression either...or:

🔹Students could choose either French or Spanish.
🔹You can either come by bus or take a taxi.

🔻as a determiner (followed by a singular countable noun):

🔹a long room with a door at either end

🔻as a pronoun:

🔹Olive oil and corn oil are both suitable, so you could use either.

(followed by ‘of’):

🔹Does either of you speak Chinese?

🔻as an adverb (in negative sentences):

🔹Jerry wasn’t there either.

✨When either is the subject of a sentence, it is usually used with a singular verb:

🔹Is either of them at home?

But in #spoken_English a plural verb is sometimes used:

🔹Are either of them at home?


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