Timeline for Can "either" coordinate more than two alternatives? [duplicate]
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 11:05 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:48 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 2:51 | history | closed |
Edwin Ashworth Drew tchrist♦ |
Duplicate of Is “either” only used with two options? | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 2:22 | answer | added | mahmud k pukayoor | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 0:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:56 | comment | added | ktm5124 | @Lawrence That actually got messed up in my copy paste. The <> characters for whatever reason were not allowed inside the quote. I used brackets instead. Hope it's clearer now. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:53 | history | edited | ktm5124 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:39 | comment | added | Lawrence | The formatting in that dictionary entry seems a bit quirky. The example tacked on the end should be more clearly marked. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:04 | comment | added | ktm5124 | @YosefBaskin Quite simply, it signifies the presence of "or" early on. Without "either", there could be an "and" at the end of the sentence, and you wouldn't know until you got there. In this sense, it's emphatic. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 22:03 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | Why is the word needed at all in your sentence? | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 21:58 | history | asked | ktm5124 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |