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Mehdi kord Posted 5 years ago
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Why is the word 'else' considered an adverb in dictionaries like Oxford and Cambridge?
It's obvious that it's modifying a pronoun, so it's an adjective.
It's obvious that it's modifying a pronoun, so it's an adjective.
- I don't want anything else, thanks.
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You must write to the editorial boards of those dictionaries as soon as possible to alert them to this horrible mistake. CJ
- You must write to the editorial boards of those dictionaries as soon as possible to alert them to this horrible mistake.
- CJ
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You must write to the editorial boards of those dictionaries as soon as possible to alert them to this horrible mistake.
CJ
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Or you could just rethink this.
1) 'else' means 'in addition'. That sounds pretty adverbial to me.
2) The part of speech that a word belongs to doesn't change just because of what it modifies. 'Noun' and 'adjective' are lexical categories (parts of speech), but modification is a function.
CJ
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