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Bookmark or Share- "However" vs. "how ever": one word or two? - English Language & Usage ...When one uses how ever, "ever" usually takes the role of an intensifier -- it increases the strength of the statement being made with "how". For example, How ever did you fix the car? is an expression of surprise or shock at the car being fixed, and could be rephrased as. How did you ever fix the car? Both of these statements are stronger than
- phrases - "More than ever" vs. "more than ever before" - English ..."More than ever" implies something that has been ongoing, and is now more than any previous time. I've been married to my wife for 20 years, and I still love her more than ever! "More than ever before" does seem a little redundant, but makes a little more sense if we are comparing separate events or measurements.
- What is the correct usage? "Ever so often" or "Every so often"Ever so is a rather archaic way of indicating degree, as in "I like picnics ever so much!" It is something you might hear Dorothy say to the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz . If you hear it used to mean every so , the speaker is probably dropping the -y from the end of every .
- Why do you use "to ever happen" and not "that ever happened"?Both versions seem alright to me. In the English Corpus (many English books over the years) the phrase that ever happened seems to be used much more than to ever happen. Consider this ngram comparing the two. This ngram considers "(*) that ever happened" in which (*) is replaced by
- usage of "only ever" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeSome occurrences of 'only ever' from the period 1900–1951. The upsurge in occurrences of "only ever" is quite clearly a phenomenon of the past seventy years, as this Ngram chart for the period 1700–2019 vividly suggests: However, modern use of the expression dates to the early twentieth century at least.
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