else
adjective
- different; other: somebody else
- in addition; more: is there anything else?
adverb
- in a different or additional time, place, or manner; differently; otherwise: where else can I go?
- if not: study, (or) else you will fail
See else in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ĕls)
adjective- Other; different: Ask somebody else.
- Additional; more: Would you like anything else?
adverb- In a different or additional time, place, or manner: I always do it this way and I don't know how else it could be done. Where else do you want to go besides Miami?
- If not; otherwise: Be careful, or else you will make a mess.
Usage Note: Else is often used redundantly in combination with prepositions such as
but, except, and
besides. The sentence
No one else but Sam saw the accident would thus be better without
else. • When a pronoun is followed by
else, the possessive form is generally written with the
's following
else: That must be someone else's (not
someone's else)
book. Both
who else's and
whose else are in use, but not
whose else's: Who else's book could it have been? Whose else could it have been? See Usage Notes at
who,
whose.
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