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Tung Quoc Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

either...or...

Either your father or your mother or your brother is right. (1)
(1) is right? Can either...or...be used with more than 2 things?

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either and neither refers to two things. You are barking up a wrong tree here,IMO

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  • either and neither refers to two things.
  • You are barking up a wrong tree here,IMO
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either and neither refers to two things.

You are barking up a wrong tree here,IMO
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I think it sounds fine. I don't know how else you would give that meaning without a whole lot more words. I think that although USUALLY either refers to two, it's like between. Generally used for two, but appropriate -- in certain contexts -- for more than two.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...
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I can not recall how this type of rhetorical device is called.

Rhetoric sometimes turns a blind eye to grammar, as I perceive.
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English is quite flexible. However, it's often difficult to learn how, when and where flexibility is appropriate.
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