Timeline for Can "either" be used as an adverb, and if so does it require, allow, or prohibit the use of a comma when so used?
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| Aug 3, 2019 at 17:04 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 3, 2019 at 17:00 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Related: english.stackexchange.com/q/8109 english.stackexchange.com/q/7093 english.stackexchange.com/q/9125 english.stackexchange.com/q/333904 english.stackexchange.com/q/361184 english.stackexchange.com/q/236216 english.stackexchange.com/q/389 | |
| Aug 3, 2019 at 16:36 | history | reopened | tchrist♦ | ||
| Aug 3, 2019 at 16:35 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2019 at 15:23 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @EdwinAshworth oh, sure, it's an adverb here. But dictionaries are particularly bad at adverbs and so the fact that a dictionary happens to say it is one is of no particular help. | |
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| Jul 27, 2019 at 14:29 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Collins gets perhaps even closer: 'John isn't a liar, but ... isn't exactly honest either.' ('He' deleted as per conjunction reduction). Here, though, with the contrast being emphasised by 'but', the comma is perhaps more likely: 'John isn't a liar, but isn't exactly honest, either.' The comma before 'either' (and that before the coordinator) are optional, best decided by what pauses, if any, the writer would like signalled. | |
| Jul 27, 2019 at 13:57 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Araucaria 'It’s a problem I can’t solve, and I don’t think anyone else can either.' [Macmillan] is surely close enough as a given example. Coordination reduction doesn't alter things. Dictionaries do a lot of grunt work in searching through corpora, so they're pretty reliable as to usage. // And the comma is totally optional; this has been covered here ad nauseam. | |
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| Jul 27, 2019 at 10:02 | history | asked | Yawar Naseem | CC BY-SA 4.0 |