Use of 'either'
I just read this sentence; "There were two lanes on either side of the house."
My question is how many lanes are there, and are they both on the same side of the house?
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What it says is that there were four lanes in total, two on one side of the house and two on the other. To know whether this is really what was intended, one would need more context, and need to know what sort of "lanes" it is referring to. It seems a slightly unusual thing to say.
- What it says is that there were four lanes in total, two on one side of the house and two on the other.
- To know whether this is really what was intended, one would need more context, and need to know what sort of "lanes" it is referring to.
- It seems a slightly unusual thing to say.
- Is the house perhaps in the reservation in the middle of a main road?
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What it says is that there were four lanes in total, two on one side of the house and two on the other. To know whether this is really what was intended, one would need more context, and need to know what sort of "lanes" it is referring to. It seems a slightly unusual thing to say. Is the house perhaps in the reservation in the middle of a main road?
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