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BarbaraPA Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Re: ever/ always

Not at all.

"Do you ever...?" is there any time when you do this?

"Do you always...?" is there any time when you do NOT do this?
  

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Lcchang Do you ever have fish for breakfast? Do you always have fish for breakfast? Do the two sentences above sound the same?

— Cool Breeze

  • Lcchang Do you ever have fish for breakfast?
  • Do you always have fish for breakfast?
  • Do the two sentences above sound the same?
  • Please advise.
  • No, but an ever green plant is always green, and that may have misled you to think that ever and always can always be used interchangeably.
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LcchangDo you ever have fish for breakfast?
Do you always have fish for breakfast?

Do the two sentences above sound the same? Please advise.
No, but an evergreen plant is always green, and that may have misled you
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Cool Breeze
LcchangDo you ever have fish for breakfast?

Do you always have fish for breakfast?

Do the two sentences above sound the same? Please advise.

No, but an evergreen plant is always
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He is ever ready to help you.

I find this a very odd sentence!

He is always ready to help you is fine.
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Grammar GeekHe is ever ready to help you.

I find this a very odd sentence!

He is always ready to help you is fine.

I see. Thanks.

LCChang
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Grammar GeekHe is ever ready to help you.

I find this a very odd sentence!

He is always ready to help you is fine.
Interesting! To my ear, 'ever ready' sounds like an eponym of a battery brand name. Perhaps one day eveready would join zipper, xerox, etc...!
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