用法要点
1. 连接并列成分:可连接名词、代词、形容词、动词、介词短语或句子。 - You can either stay at home or go to the park. - The book is either red or blue.2. 主谓一致:当连接两个主语时,谓语动词需与最近的主语保持一致就近原则。
- Either the teacher or the students are responsible for the cleanup.
- Either my parents or my brother is coming to visit.
3. 否定形式:若表示否定选择,需用"not either...or...",而非直接加否定词。
- She is not either happy or sad about the news. 2. 主谓一致:连接两个主语时,谓语动词同样遵循就近原则,与最近的主语保持一致。
- Neither the dog nor the cats were in the garden.
- Neither my friends nor I am available tonight.
3. 倒装结构:当neither/nor位于句首时,句子需部分倒装助动词/情态动词提前。
- Neither did he call me, nor did he send a message.
- Nor has she finished her homework, nor has she started it.
三、核心区别与
用法要点
1. 连接并列成分:可连接名词、代词、形容词、动词等,否定两个并列对象。
- He likes neither coffee nor tea.
- The movie was neither interesting nor educational.
