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Ever is an adverb that you can use in the following cases:
Ever: at any time
Questions
We use ever in questions:
Has he ever scored a goal
before? (at any time in his life)
Do you ever dream about winning
the lottery?
Have you ever heard of The Ivy
restaurant?
Negatives
We can use not … ever in negatives, but never is
more common than not ever:
Laurie doesn’t ever call me at
weekends. or Laurie never calls me …
We haven’t ever had a problem with
noise in the neighbourhood before or We’ve never had a problem with
noise …
We use ever in negative statements with words like no
one, nobody and hardly:
No one ever told me what had
happened.
I have hardly ever eaten
Vietnamese food.
Ever after if
We can use ever immediately after if or
in mid position (between the subject and the main verb, or after the modal verb
or first auxiliary verb, or after main verb be):
If ever you move house, I’d
advise you to get a good removal company.
If you ever go
to Edinburgh, make sure to visit the Art Gallery.
If I had ever wanted
to stay in Manchester, they would have made me very welcome, I’m sure.
Ever so and ever such
We use ever before so and such to
add emphasis:
I feel ever so cold.
He was ever such a kind man.
Ever since
We use ever before since to emphasise
that something has been true from the beginning of a specific period of time:
Ever since we met, we have been
such great friends.
Mrs Leech doesn’t go for walks on her own ever
since she fell.
As … as ever
We can use ever with the comparative form as … as ….
This shows a permanent characteristic of someone or something:
A: How is work?
B: Don’t ask! It’s as busy as ever.
They’ve built a new road around the city but traffic is as bad as ever.
Ever meaning ‘always’
In more formal situations, we can use ever with adjectives
to mean ‘always’:
The company cannot sustain ever-decreasing
profits.
Jones was ever available to
help the family.
NOTE: In a less formal context we can use ever as never to emphasize about a situation that never happened to us before, when using superlatives:
Yesterday's was the best party ever.
That man was the worst client ever to come to our shop.
Partially based on: dictionary.cambridge.orgNOTE: In a less formal context we can use ever as never to emphasize about a situation that never happened to us before, when using superlatives:
Yesterday's was the best party ever.
That man was the worst client ever to come to our shop.
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