2021-04-29 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – always & all ways & ever

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2021-04-29

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – always & all ways & ever

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง always = ‘AWL-weyz’

ออกเสียง ways = ‘WEYZ’

ออกเสียง ever = ‘EV-er’

Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree

Always = at all times:

She is always late.

Not to be confused with:

all ways = every manner possible:

In all ways he is kind and just.

Dictionary.com

SYNONYM STUDY FOR ALWAYS

Both always and ever refer to uniform or perpetual continuance.

Always often expresses or implies

repetition as producing the uniformity or continuance:

The sun always rises in the east.

Ever implies an unchanging sameness throughout:

Natural law is ever to be reckoned with.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,

ways

Usage Note:

Way has long been an intensifying adverb

meaning "to a great degree,"

as in way over budget.                              

This usage is both acceptable and common but has an informal ring.

Way is also used as a general intensifier,

as in way cool and way depressing.

This usage remains a hallmark of casual speech

and is not appropriate for formal contexts.

In American English

ways is often used as an equivalent of way

in phrases such as a long ways to go.

This usage is considered nonstandard by most editors,

though it appears occasionally in less formal texts.

Collins COBUILD English Usage

always

If something always happens, it happens at all times.

If it has always happened, or will always happen,

it has happened forever or will happen forever.

When always has one of these meanings,

it is used with a simple form of a verb.

If there is no auxiliary verb, always goes in front of the verb,

unless the verb is be.

Talking to Harold always cheered her up.

A man always remembers his first love.

If the verb is be, you usually put always after it.

She was always in a hurry.

If there is an auxiliary verb, you usually put always after it.

I've always been very careful.

If there is more than one auxiliary verb,

you usually put always after the first one.

She had always been allowed to read whatever she wanted.

Be Careful!
When you use always with this meaning,

don't use it with a verb in a progressive form.

Don't say, for example, 'Talking to Harold was always cheering her up'.

If you say that something is always happening,

you mean that it happens often.

When you use always like this,

you use it with a progressive form of a verb.

Why are you always interrupting me?

The bed was always collapsing.

She's great – she's always laughing and smiling.

Be Careful!

Don't use 'always' in comparisons, negative sentences, or questions

to mean 'at any time in the past' or 'at any time in the future'.

Instead, you use ever.

For example,

don't say 'They got on better than always before'.

You say 'They got on better than ever before'.

It was the biggest shooting star they had ever seen.

How will I ever manage to survive alone?

Collins COBUILD English Usage

1. 'ever'

Ever is used in negative sentences, questions, and comparisons

to mean 'at any time in the past' or 'at any time in the future'.

Neither of us had ever skied.

I don't think I'll ever be homesick here.

Have you ever played football?

I'm happier than I've ever been.

2. 'yet'

Don't use ever in questions or negative sentences

to ask whether an expected event has happened,

or to say that it has not happened so far.

Don't say, for example, 'Has the taxi arrived ever?'

or 'The taxi has not arrived ever'.

The word you use is yet.

Have you had your lunch yet?

It isn't dark yet.

See yet

3. 'always'

Don't use ever in positive sentences

to say that there was never a time when something was not true.

Don't say, for example, 'I've ever been happy here'.

Use always.

She was always in a hurry.

Talking to Harold always cheered her up.

See always

4. 'still'

Don't use ever to say that something is continuing to happen.

Don't say, for example, 'When we left, it was ever raining'.

Use still.

Unemployment is still falling.

I'm still a student.

See still

5. 'ever since'

If something has been true ever since a particular time,

it has been true all the time from then until now.

'How long have you lived here?' – 'Ever since I was married.'

We have been good friends ever since.

Dictionary of Problem Words in English

always& all ways        

Always is an adverb meaning

“forever,” “ceaselessly,” “on every occasion”:

“He was always on time for appointments.”

“Joe said he would love Becky for always.”

All ways is a phrase meaning “every way,” “all possible ways”:

“The teachers tried in all ways to interest Joe in studying.”