Not even I dreamed you would have the nerve to use this old place as your hideout--" I don't quite get what the sentence (in bold) tries to convey. It can be because I don't understand " not even ".

2024年5月22日 · "Not even" is used to emphasise the extent or degree of a situation by indicating that something is so unlikely or so extreme that even the least expected case doesn't occur. It …

2021年12月14日 · "not even once" is just a way of adding emphasis. And, because it is used for emphasis, the phrase "not even once" should not be split. Example: "I did not even once …

There is a single pen. -> There is not a single pen. -> There is not even a single pen. Basically both sentences express the absence of something, the latter having a stonger emphasis. But …

2019年10月3日 · "He did not even say a word", "He did not even look at me", "He did not even reply to my text message" are more common constructions in comparison to the constructions …

I want to say something like: You're amazing, don't let anyone tell you differently, not even you/yourself. I've found a meme saying: Trust Nobody, Not Even Yourself, so I think yourself is …

I wasn't there last year - not even once. and more strongly: I was never there last year. Other ways to express this forcefully are: At no time/point last year was I there. I was not present …

2021年6月30日 · There is not even single thing... because single is an adjective, not a determiner. You could remove the adjective single and make it. There is not even a thing... although it is …

2013年12月2日 · But I have not examined the results, so my progress is really poor.] This use of the word even with a negative verb means that the speaker is comparing some actual quantity …

2020年9月29日 · Your sentence is not idiomatic English. A native speaker would say "He doesn't like studying; he doesn't even get good marks." The sense of nor would be "He doesn't get …