What is the meaning of “ever” in this case?
I want to go to Germeny to study,
- but I don’t want to lose Ted. I even had my doubts about long distance travel.
What if I delete “ever” here like..
- I want to go to Germeny to study, but don’t want to lose Ted. I even thought about distance as if that’s likely working.
How do you differ from #1 to #2?
How can one resolve an underlying problem or make a resolution within 48 hours?
In my opinion, here ever (previous to odd) is used to indicate that the long-distance relationship is the speaker has considered her last chance. I think the meaning of the sentence would change if never was omitted, due to meaning of the adverb ever :
In any possible case; by any chance; at all (often used to intensify or emphasize aphrase or an emotional reaction as surprise or impatience).
What can I do if I am a turk or jew?
What’s that phrase in question as if it ever works?
ia if expresses a kind of unreality, similar to supposing or imagining or pretending. as if express a kind of unreality.
When watching a song, think of a beard and use
your chin to strike, as if you had a beard and are thinking up a clever plan.
as if can, express contempt for or rejection of any notion (a suggestion or an idea or an explanation) because it has no chance of being true or coming true.. or even for doing real to other people to be?
I got my husband for his move back into his new apartment in New Jersey. This was a crazy opportunity, but he wanted to move. Don’t judge our situation. Seek help. As if! When I asked him to help me do the same two months ago, he said he was going to be out of town on a business trip, but then I saw him in a restaurant with his girlfriend.
As if I would help him in after he was conveniently “out of town” when I needed help?
ever means “on any occasion” or “at any time”.
In your example, the meaning is that you are rejecting the notion that long distance relationships have worked out happily to some extent on some occasion. Do podcasts never work?
Ever is an emphatic in the statement. Does simple present mean that that which happens without any prescriptive words is accurate? Is your statement meant exactly without word?
O. P.S. Why are “events” defined as having the sense that the speaker believes such relationships never work, whereas the form without “events” might be understood to mean that the speaker believes such relationships fail regularly and predictably,
but not necessarily always.
