Английский разговорник. Too | Either | Neither

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Hello everyone! This is a podcast by EnglishDom – an online school of English. My name is Deedra and today we are going to talk about "too", "either" and "neither". Well, these things are really important because we use them to agree with people. In our lives sometimes we have to agree or disagree, we like to talk and connect with people. And this is one of the ways we can do that. So, let me show you.

0:37
We have John. And maybe you wanna be friends with John and talk with John, so he says "I live in London". If you live in London too, then you can say "Me too". If you don't live in London then you just say "Oh, I don't live in London" and then you say where you live. Maybe you live in Moscow, that's OK. This is used only for agreeing with someone and saying that you do this also.

1:12
So, let's take a look at the next one. We have John saying he doesn't live in New York. "I don't live in New York". Cause he lives in London. So, if you live in London too, you're going to say "Me neither", of course. Well, there are three different ways that you can agree with him. Cause this is a negative verb here "do not", "I don't live in London". Well, we need to have a negative in this sentence somewhere, because this is negative. So, we have "Me neither". "Neither" is negative. You can remember because of the "n". Alright, another way is a little bit longer sentence. We have "Neither do I". Again, here is the negative – "neither". "Neither do I". And you must remember that you use the same verb that the other person used. So, if he used "to do", "do", than you should use "do". So, "I do not live in London". –"Neither do I". But don't get confused, you should never use a double negative. It's not correct. So you cannot say "neither don't I". You cannot say that. You must say "neither do I". So, here is the negative and here is the positive in this sentence.

3:03
There is one more way we can agree with him. We can use it this way: "I don't either". "Either" is positive and you can remember cause it does not have an "n". So, "either" is positive and obviously here, the "n", it's negative. So, "I do not either", "I don't either". So here we have a nice balance of positive and negative, and there is always a negative in this sentence because his sentence was negative. So, "I don't either", "Me neither", "Neither do I". All three different ways to agree with someone who says something negative.

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OK, I think we can test your knowledge now. So, let's try. Let's first try with this one. We have John saying "I hate mushrooms". What are you going to say? Do you agree or not? If you agree, then you will also say "Me too". Me too. For me, I like mushrooms, so, I'm just going to say "Oh, well, I like mushrooms". And that's all. Here we have John saying "I love coffee". Do you love coffee? If you do, I do, you would say "Me too". But if you didn't, you would just say "Oh, I don't like coffee" or "I hate coffee". Whatever it is, however you feel about coffee.

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So, now let's take a look at this one. Don't worry, it's not difficult. John says "I don't play the piano". And then you can say… Do you play the piano? Do you not? Well, if you are like John and you don't play the piano, then you could say "Me neither". You could also say "Neither do I" or "I don't either". All of these are correct. You can say any of them.

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One other thing I'd like to show you is that you can use this for any tense, any verb. So, we also have the verb "to do", but this time the verb is in the past. So, John is saying "I didn't go to the cinema yesterday". Well, did you go? If you also did not go to the cinema like John, then you could also say "Me neither", "Neither did I" or "I didn't either". So, we'll write "Neither did I", just so you can see it. Neither did I. So, just taking a look at this, the verb is "to do" in the past, so "did". We copy that here, but there is a negative here and "neither" is a negative. So, it's nice and balanced and perfect. So, that is how you do it, it doesn't matter what tense it's in, all you have to do is copy the verb in the right tense and put a negative there, using "neither" or "didn't either", something like that. Your choice. You can be creative with this.

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So, I hope you enjoyed learning about "too", "neither" and "either", and if you wanna learn more, just go to englishdom.com. My name's Deedra and I'll see you guys next time. Bye!