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Ramsés López
Neither/either in a question
Is possible to use either or neither in a question?. What is the grammar rule? Let me to put an example.
Context: there are two photos in the table.
<ul><li>person A. I’m not the person in the first photo.</li><li>person B. [ Ether/neither] are you the person in the second photo?</li></ul>١٩ أبريل ٢٠٢٠ ١٥:٤٩
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"neither" means "not either". In this question, you have to use "not... either" because of the way this grammar rule works.
Example:
A: I don't drink beer.
B: Do you not drink wine either?
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No, they are not interchangeable. The question I wrote can only be formed with "not... either".
I think your best bet is to avoid the word "neither" in questions.
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Hey no problem, but nope. You'd have to negate the sentence like I highlighted previously. So "Not in the second photo either?". The word neither wouldn't really work here except in substandard English as a double negative. I can't explain why "neither" by itself without "not" wouldn't work here, but it just wouldn't. Maybe because it'd sound like it's on the wrong end of a "neither... nor" construction.
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Then I'd use the word "then" instead of either of "either" or "neither". You can of course always use them in a question, but I don't think they have a good place in your example without modifying it more like "Are you not the person in the second photo either?".
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You wouldn't use either or neither in a question like that.
If the person isn't in any of the photos, you could say: "I am not in the first photo. Neither am I in the second one."
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Ramsés López
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