Types I: Additives
- coordinators: AND, BOTH..AND, NOT ONLY..BUT
- punctuation: , for SERIES
- sentence adverbs: THEN, ALSO, FURTHERMORE, SIMILARLY etc.

Additives: Examples
- Pete sanded the car on Friday AND painted it with undercoating on Saturday.
- We gossiped, laughed and sang together at the class reunion.
- The chairman of the Planning Commission refused to allow our citizens’ committee to present our petition; MOREOVER, he ordered us to leave the meeting.

Type I: Negative Additives
- coordinators: nor, neither..nor
- I don’t enjoy flying across the country.
- I don’t particularly want to take the train.
- I NEITHER enjoy flying across the country NOR particularly want to take the train.

NOR
- John would not renew his contract.
- John would not stay in Thailand.
- John would not renew his contract, NOR stay in Thailand.
- He did not dare to ask her to marry him.
- He did not dare to ask her parents for permission.
- He did not dare to ask her to marry him, NOR to ask her parents for permission.

NOR
- He hasn’t been invited to the party.
- He doesn’t care to go there.
- He hasn’t been invited to the party, NOR DOES he care to go there.
- John did not quit his job.
- John did not leave town permanently.
- John did not quit his job, NOR DID he leave town permanently.

ELLIPSIS
- UNINVERTED AFFIRMATIVE FORM: TOO
- She has left the country, and I have left the country.
- She has left the country, and I HAVE TOO.
- INVERTED AFFIRMATIVE FORM: SO
- Birds can fly, and I can fly.
- Birds can fly, and SO CAN I.

ELLIPSIS
- UNINVERTED NEGATIVE FORM
- She hasn’t left, and I haven’t left EITHER.
- She hasn’t left, and I haven’t EITHER.
- INVERTED NEGATIVE FORM
- She doesn’t believe the reports, and I don’t believe them EITHER.
- She doesn’t believe the reports, and NEITHER DO I.

Subject Verb Agreement
- Proximity rule:
- Either my sister or my brothers ARE going to do it.
- Neither the books nor the movie WAS helpful.
- There IS a girl and two boys in the room.
- There ARE two boys and a girl in the room.
- BUT for personal pronoun: the commonly used form is
- Neither you nor I ARE trained for that job.