EVER
* [부정문, 의문문에서의 ever = at any time.
If you ever need any help, just let me know.
Was Ron ever in the army?
Have you ever done something?
Have you ever been to Cape Town?
hardly ever (=almost never):
It hardly ever rains here in the summer.
* 비교급 앞에서의 ever = all the time
The tax laws grow ever more complex.
Our aim is an ever closer union of nation states.
* 접두사로서의 ever = always, continuously,
the ever-changing countryside
ever-increasing numbers of students
* 강조 용법으로의 ever.
Don’t ever do that again.
It was the only serious question he had ever asked me.
I will never ever forget what you’ve done for me.
It was her first time ever on an airplane.
Isabel’s looking *lovelier than ever*.
Thailand’s *largest ever* trade fair.