CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS

CONJUNCTION PAIRS

Correlative conjunctions sometimes create problems in parallel form: You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears 


*  * *  * We have art in order not to die of the truth * I think, therefore I am/exist * Do what you want and say what you feel because those who mind don t matter and those who matter don t mind * Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated *  *  *  * However you look at it, it’s an enormous problema.


AS ... AS ...

The future influences the present just AS much AS the past.


 


EITHER ... OR ...

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will EITHER love you for it OR hate you for it. Eminem

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

EITHER that / this wallpaper goes OR I do. Oscar Wilde.

Valentine's Day is definitely one of those days where it's EITHER awesome OR it's a downer,



OTHER USES

The issue of abortion is often presented as a rights issue. It is treated as an either/or proposition: either you eagerly accept it (are all for it) or you are behind the times (utterly against it).





 

NEITHER ... NOR ...

Marriage is NEITHER heaven NOR hell, it is simply purgatory (Shakespeare)

The stupid NEITHER forgive NOR forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

NEITHER praise NOR blame yourself.

NEITHER a borrower, NOR a lender be.

There can be NEITHER today without yesterday NOR tomorrow without today.

Whichever / whatever way you go, there is NEITHER right OR wrong way, rather shades of grey. (on the contrary, mas bien)

I'm boring. My beliefs are NEITHER here NOR there (it's no big deal, irrelevant) 

There are NEITHER winners NOR losers; there are only stages that must be gone through.

There would be NEITHER winners NOR losers in a global nuclear conflict: world civilization would inevitably perish. It is a suicide, rather than a war in the conventional sense of the word.

Binomials with "neither ... nor ..."

Whether or not I agree with you is neither here nor there. (irrelevant, unimportant)  

Other uses of "neither"

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, NEITHER does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

I don't eat fast food, and NEITHER should you!


 
NOT (ONLY) ... BUT (RATHER) ...   

One is NOT born, BUT RATHER becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir

It is NOT a lack of love, BUT a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

NOT ONLY is there no God, BUT try finding a plumber on Sunday / on weekends.

Happiness doesN'T depend on anybody but ourselves / me. 

But we are NOT in the world to be good BUT to change it. 

Success isN'T something you achieve by accident, BUT RATHER by design. 

There is no doubt that life is given us, NOT not to be enjoyed, BUT to be overcome / to be got over. Arthur Schopenhauer

The world shall perish NOT for lack of wonders, BUT for lack of wonder.

Man is NOT the sum of what he has already, BUT RATHER the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. Jean-Paul Sartre

The alternative to peace is NOT victory BUT death. Think about it before it's too late.





NOT ONLY .... BUT (ALSO)

The man of knowledge must be able NOT ONLY to love his enemies BUT ALSO to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche


 

WHETHER ... OR ...

WHETHER you win OR lose doesn't matter as long as you do your best. It doesn't matter as long as you do your best. 

It's not WHETHER you win OR lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.