| 词组 | else |
| 释义 | else In present-day English, compound pronouns with else—anybody else, somebody else, who else, for instance—take the -'s of the possessive on the else: • It's fun reading somebody else's poems —Randall Jarrell, letter, May 1953 • At least this is an individual book. I can't think of anybody else's that it might remind you of —Flan-nery O'Connor, letter, 14 Nov. 1959 • I could picture Blount's people getting cautiously off the floor, and God knows who else's people —Wilfrid Sheed, People Will Always Be Kind, 1973 • ... they were ideas not unlike anybody else's — Philip Roth, Reading Myself and Others, 1975 • They just didn't seem to give a damn about life— theirs or anyone else's —And More by Andy Rooney, 1982 It seems strange, perhaps, to readers at the tail end of the 20th century that this subject needs to be mentioned at all. But a century ago it was a red-hot issue in usage. The reason for the dispute was a shift in general practice: before about 1840 the -'5 went with the pronoun, and forms like somebody's else were considered standard. Gould 1870 and Ayres 1881 were still calling for these forms in the face of changing usage, but not long after the turn of the century the modern forms began to gain increasing acceptance among the commentators. But change comes hard for some people; there is evidence that some English instructors were still trying to inculcate somebody's else as late as the 1950s. The old forms may still be heard or seen, but the form with else's is now the overwhelming choice. |
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