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27 août 2019 · (1) I have a lot of friends. I want to work on the project only with John. (2) I have a lot of friends. I want to work on the project with only John. What is the correct placement of "only"? Thank you very much for your help.
9 avr. 2005 · English Only. Discussions in English about the English language. This is not a translation forum. 1. 2.
15 août 2019 · The meaning of "only ever" has to depend on context. Normally "only" should be next to whatever it modifies, but it does not modify "ever". "Ever" means "at any time (s)" or "under any set of circumstances", never "at all times" or "once" or "at one time". Unfortunately, neither "only at any time (s)" nor "only under any set of circumstances ...
18 avr. 2012 · It depends. If you say "only showed", that means they didn't display anything in the show except the protesters' damage. If you say "showed only" that could mean that they showed only the damage that the protesters did and not that they planted flowers/sang songs/etc.
8 sept. 2022 · Sep 9, 2022. #5. "Only ever" is an interesting juxtaposition. Ever usually means " (at) any time" and sometimes means "always", but neither "only at any time" nor "only always" makes any sense. I have yet to see a proper explanation of this syntax. "I only ever read fiction when I’m at school" actually means that the speaker never reads ...
4 mars 2020 · Hi, everyone! I hope every one of you is doing fine. 1. A woman gives her heart only to the man she chooses of her own free will. 2. A woman gives her heart to only the man she chooses of her own free will. May you kindly tell me which of the two sentences above is correct? Thank you very much!
16 nov. 2013 · We’ll let H. W. Fowler, the language maven’s language maven, have the final say on this: “For He only died a week ago no better defence is perhaps possible than that it is the order that most people have always used & still use, & that, the risk of misunderstanding being chimerical, it is not worth while to depart from the natural.”
11 nov. 2011 · UK English. Nov 11, 2011. #2. It is correct. For example, from The Guardian: ‘the number of families with a single child is growing at a faster rate than ever.’. But it’s more likely, I’d have thought, to be used in official reports or by social workers. ‘only child’ is more usual and what people would normally say. B.
19 juin 2017 · Jun 19, 2017. #3. 'Only' is considered to have negative meaning, so you're putting a negative phrase at the front of the sentence. This causes inversion of subject and auxiliary. There isn't an auxiliary in the plain sentence (without inversion) so you need to add one: a form of 'do'. They produce original malt whisky only in Scotland.
28 avr. 2019 · English - U.S. Apr 28, 2019. #5. My thought is you can say "English only" or "only English". They are both okay grammatically. But for the name of a forum, it's best to start with the language name. It sounds better and also, when things are sorted alphabetically, the name will sort by the word "English" and not the word "only".
