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precedes two, or more, coördinate words or phrases, and isintroductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, orperadventure he sleepeth. 1 Kings xviii. 27.Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triplealternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, orrecede. Latham.
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both, indicating that each of the two following phrases must be done or will occur
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used in negative sentences instead of also or too:
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Used before the first of two (or occasionally more) alternatives that are being specified (the other being introduced by “or”)
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