Can you define the proper placement of "either" ...."or" in related sentences?

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Pushpi Upadhyay

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Yes I remember once my grandpa who was a Professor of English asked and used to teach degree students in college asked me what do we call the night when the moon shines brightly .... prompt I replied a bright night.... he laughed and said No... it's called a moonlit night :)
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"either.... or" is used in a scenario where you want to convey that one can CHOOSE BETWEEN TWO OPTIONS. eg: "you can buy either a mobile phone or a camera with our money". however , the options can be two similar things or things which are in direct contrast to the other
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"either.... or" is used in a scenario where you want to convey that one can CHOOSE BETWEEN TWO OPTIONS. eg: "you can buy either a mobile phone or a camera with our money". however , the options can be two similar things [eg: either a pen or a pencil] or things which are in direct contrast to the other [eg: you can either stay or leave] read less
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It's for a choice between two: you can have either an apple or a banana
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Use them before pair nouns or subjects or phrases that you are talking about. Example: Either Kabir or Siva has broken this window. (one of them has broken it) She will either stay at home or come for the movie. If one noun is singular and the other plural, the pattern goes like this: Either...
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Use them before pair nouns or subjects or phrases that you are talking about. Example: Either Kabir or Siva has broken this window. (one of them has broken it) She will either stay at home or come for the movie. If one noun is singular and the other plural, the pattern goes like this: Either Seema or her parents are coming to collect the report. Since the noun closest to the verb is plural (parents), we use 'are' and not 'is' here. read less
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1) Either you are lying or you are telling the truth.... I cant say 2) Either you want me to stay in this job or quit...... please clarify ! 3) Either you are a fool or pretending to be one....God knows 4) Either you are provoking me to file the case or want me to mediate with them... I cant understand...
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1) Either you are lying or you are telling the truth.... I cant say 2) Either you want me to stay in this job or quit...... please clarify ! 3) Either you are a fool or pretending to be one....God knows 4) Either you are provoking me to file the case or want me to mediate with them... I cant understand ..... Thanks :) read less
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Either is used in making a comparison between two situations, where you have to choose one of them. We use 'OR' with either. Example: Bryan tells his brother either to watch the complete movie or leave the room.
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We can either watch a movie or go to a restaurant. Does that help?
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The conjunction 'either...or' is used for being comfortable with either of the"TWO" options, situations, choices etc., eg: I shall have either Coffee or Tea. The context is One of the options is OK.. The negative reflection of a similar situation is 'Neither Tea nor Coffee' etc.,
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I thank everyone for nice answers. I got this information from one of the links. “Either” often gets misplaced in a sentence: “He either wanted to build a gambling casino or a convent” should be “He wanted to build either a gambling casino or a convent.” In this example, both things are wanted, so...
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I thank everyone for nice answers. I got this information from one of the links. “Either” often gets misplaced in a sentence: “He either wanted to build a gambling casino or a convent” should be “He wanted to build either a gambling casino or a convent.” In this example, both things are wanted, so “either” comes after the verb. But if the action is different in regard to the things compared, the “either” has to come before the verb: “He wanted either to build a casino or remodel a convent.” Here two different actions are being compared, so the “either” has to precede both actions. read less
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I beg your pardon and with due respect to your resource courtesy;i humbly exhort you to check the veracity of the lexical string, in a non digital corpus,"He wanted to build either a gambling casino or a convent".Its a past proper with an infinivial phrase 'to build'.Wonder if the coordinating conjunction...
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I beg your pardon and with due respect to your resource courtesy;i humbly exhort you to check the veracity of the lexical string, in a non digital corpus,"He wanted to build either a gambling casino or a convent".Its a past proper with an infinivial phrase 'to build'.Wonder if the coordinating conjunction pair is used in the aforesaid sequence to denote optionality.If the specimen sentence is drawn from a novel or a best seller fiction;than the syntactic value of the monoclausal components are better left to the reader's discretion. read less
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