"even" position in a sentence
In a comment, John Lawler wrote:
Adverbs like even and only are normally placed right after the first auxiliary verb, if there is one. So I haven't even started is fine, but *I even haven't started is ungrammatical.
In a comment, John Lawler wrote:
Adverbs like even and only are normally placed right after the first auxiliary verb, if there is one. So I haven't even started is fine, but *I even haven't started is ungrammatical.