词组 | else |
释义 | else You use else after words such as 'someone', 'somewhere', or 'anything' to refer to another person, place, or thing, without saying which one. ...someone else's house. Let's go somewhere else. I had nothing else to do. ◊ used with 'wh'-words You can use else after most 'wh'-words. For example, if you ask 'What else did they do?', you are asking what other things were done besides the things that have already been mentioned. What else do I need to do? Who else was there? Why else would he be so willing to plead guilty? Where else could they live in such comfort? How else was I to explain what had happened? Note that you do not use else after 'which'. ◊ 'little else' and 'much else' Else is often used after 'little' and 'much'. If you say, for example, 'There was little else I could do', you mean that there were not many additional things that you could do. There was little else he could say. The firm had grown big by bothering about profits and very little else. My excuse was that I had so much else to do. ◊ 'or else' Or else is used as a conjunction with a similar meaning to 'or'. You use it to introduce the second of two possibilities. I think I was at school, or else I was staying with a school friend during the vacation. Either she was disappointed or else something had made her shy. You also use or else when you are mentioning the undesirable results that will occur if someone does not do a particular thing. You've got to be very careful or else you'll miss the turn-off into our drive. It's important that your child should have a wide range of books or else he will confine his view of reading to the books in school. |
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