never ever

"He's never ever wrong."



If you had to give an explanation of that structure, would you look at it stylistically, or grammatically?

That sentance is always and forever wrong.

"Never ever" is simply an intensifier. It's not wrong in any way, it just makes the concept of "never" more emphatic. So it has both grammatical and stylistic aspects.

<So it has both grammatical and stylistic aspects. >

Could you tell us a little something about both aspects? How would you teach the item "never ever"?

<<Could you tell us a little something about both aspects? How would you teach the item "never ever"? >>


It's just a colloquial expression, an idiom, a set phrase.

<It's just a colloquial expression, an idiom, a set phrase. >

How is it an idiom?

Mr Never Ever = John Howard