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Hela Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

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0Dear teachers,02br
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00Are both of the following constructions with "01b00both02b00" possible? If yes, would they have a different meaning?02br
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001) Eric and I 01font00have02font00 01font00been 02font01font01b00both 02b02font01font00learning02font00 and teaching00 00languages 01font01font00for02font02font00 years.["both" applies here to "learning and teaching"?]02br
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002) 00Eric and I 01font00have02font00 01font01b00both02b00 02font01font00been 02font01font00learning02font00 and teaching00 00languages 01font01font00for02font02font00 years.["both" applies here to "Eric and I" or is it the same as (1)?]02br
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00Many thanks,02br
00Hela02br
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02i 00 is most unambiguously a case where 01i 00both02i 00 applies to Eric and I. 02br 02br 00 CJ0-

— CalifJim

  • 02i 00 is most unambiguously a case where 01i 00both02i 00 applies to Eric and I.
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0 1) 01i00both02i00 applies to learning and teaching02br
00 2) 01i00both02i00 applies to Eric and I although someone, in a lapse of good sense, might say it, hoping to mean that 01i00both02i00 applies to learning and teaching.02br
00 3) 01i00Both Eric and I have been learning and teaching ..
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0Hi Hela,02br
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00Are both of the following constructions with "01b00both02b00" possible? 01font00Yes. 02font00If yes, would they have a different meaning? 01font00Yes.02font02br
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001) Eric and I 01font00have
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0Thank you to you both, Jim and Clive 05002br
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00Have a nice weekend, watching the Olympic Games perhaps?010id1
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0Dear teachers,02br
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00Sorry to trouble you with always the same questions but I would like to know how should the word "both" be best positioned in a construction.02br
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00Which of the following constructions is best ? Or are they both perfectly correct?02br
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00a) It was neither quick nor easy, I assure you. We 01b0
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0 "a" is more common but "b" is not so bad.02br
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00"Both" in attributive uses commonly behaves like a middle-positional adverb in its position.02br
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00The middle-positional adverbs are positioned like:02br
00(1) When the main verb is not "be" and the main stands as a finite (=tense/person bearing) verb, the adverbs are put between the s
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0Hi,02br
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00You will also often hear people say 01i00'Both of us had . . .'.02i02br
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00Clive0-
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