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Describing similarities using link words

I Link words for two elements
  • Both……and…….
  • Either……or…..
  • Neither……nor…….
II Observe and Learn

I am Sofia. have got one brother whose name is Kader. He is seventeen  years old. My mother is a housewife and my father is an engineer. Our house is rather big. We all love animals. We have a dog and a cat, but neither of them is mine. Both of them are Kader’s pets. I’m always happy to see them playing together. Both get along, which is an amazing thing!

Remember what Sofia says about her family pets:

“We have a dog and a cat, but neither of them is mine. Both of them are Kader’spets”.

Both of them are Kader’s pets = Both the dog and the cat are kader’s pets.

They are are kader’s pets.

The word "them" is the object pronoun of “they” and refers to the dog and the cat.

A reminder of object pronouns

Subject pronouns Obejct pronouns
I Me
You You
He Him
She Her
It It
We Us
They Them

 

Both……and……

To introduce two people / two animals/ two things as subject we can use “both”.

Observe how it is used in these examples
  1. Both Karima and Hind are good students.
  • We can say: Both of them are good students.
  1. Both my father and mother work.
  • Both my parents work.
  • Both of them work.
  1. Both my brother and I are athletes.
  • Both of us work.

To introduce adjectives after the verb to be.

Observe how it is used in these examples
  1. I was both tired and hungry when I arrived home.
  2. The building was both empty and dark.
Either……or……

When there is a choice to make between two people/ animals/ things we use“either….. or…….”.

Observe how it is used in these examples
  1. Either Bob or John will drive you home. One of them will take you home.
  2. She will study either medicine or chemistry. She hasn’t made up her mind yet.
  3. Choose either topic 1 or topic 2.
  4. Either you apologise or I‘ll never speak to you again.
Neither……nor……

 Observe what Sofia  says about her family pets:

“We have a dog and a cat, but neither of them is mine“.

She wants to say that the dog and the cat are not her pets.

Note the use of ‘neither’ which has a negative meaning: It replaces"not".

To introduce subjects

The verb after neither must be in the affirmative form, and when neither introduces two subjects, the verb in the present simple obeys the rules of the third person of the singular. However, in spoken English we can use the present simple of the third person of the plural.

Observe how we can use this form

"Neither the dog nor the cat is mine"

More examples
  1. Jim is not a writer.John is not a writer.
  2. Jim does not work.Jane does not work.
Examples Written English Spoken English
  1.  
Neither Jim nor John is a writer. Neither Jim nor John are writers.  
  1.  

Neither Jim nor Jane works.

Neither Jim nor Jane work.

 

To introduce verbs

To introduce verbs, there are some transformations to take into account.

  1. Sofia doesn’t go out at the weekend. She doesn’t practise sport at weekends.
  • Sofia neither goes out nor pactises sport at weekends.
  1. We don’t travel abroad. We don’t have leisure activities.
  • We neither travel abroad nor have leisure activities.
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  • الأجوبة الصحيحة
  • False
  • الأجوبة الخاطئة
  • False
  • مجموع النقاط
  • False

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