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2,007 3 19 29 Either and neither are both fairly similar to themselves. - user28567 Sep 29, 2013 at 21:00 1 Yep. "Neither" is just a contraction of "not either". I'm not sure you've understood the question - James Webster
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What would be the correct word to use when referring to three or more items, in the same manner as the word both? For example, using two words, with the word both: "There are several recommendations I have to further improve the sites — both to improve their profit, and decrease their cost."
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(Are your mother and father going to Chile?) Both with nouns When we use both before a determiner (e.g. a/an, the, her, his) + noun, both and both of can be used: She knew both my children. (or. both of my children .) Both her brothers are living in Canada. (or Both of her brothers.) We can use both before a noun:
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As NOAD say: " When both is used in construction with and, the structures following 'both' and 'and' should be symmetrical in well-formed English. " In the first example, the symmetry or parallelism of 'for Y' and 'for Z' has been lost. The second and the third example are well-formed English. Share Improve this answer Follow
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I enjoyed all three of them movies. The three of them are hardworking employees. 2.2 Italian. In Italian, when referring to three things informally, you can use the expressions "tutti e tre" or "tutti e tre i" to express the concept of "both" for three things. For example: Tutti e tre i prodotti sono di alta qualità.
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9 Answers Sorted by: 6 Triple: Adj. having or involving three units or members - triple bypass heart surgery Quadruple: Adj. having four units or members And quintuple, sextuple, septuple, octuple. One could continue with nonuple but that's getting kind of silly. (Citations from merriam-webster.com.) Share
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No. both refers to exactly two things. - Jim Jul 17, 2016 at 1:06 1 No one's stopping you. Your readers might find it a bit confusing, though. (Note that one mistake you make is to use "the" too much for your two sublists to be recognized as such, vs appearing to be a single 6-element list.) - Hot Licks Jul 17, 2016 at 1:18
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If there are more why not just say "I'll take three of them." Why make it more complicated than it has to be? By the same token, if there were more than two, you wouldn't say "both" either. "All" is the only responce that makes sense. Primative languages have words for "one," "two," and "many." English has many vestiges of this.
Somebody is offering me these both for three hundred. First off is it a good deal? 2nd off are
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1 Answer Sorted by: 17 (number) for (number) simply means "you were successful (number) attempts out of (number) attempts" So you could be "seven for nine" or any other combination, athough it is rarely used that way outside of sports like baseball.
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The language Old English descended from originally had three grammatical numbers. Singular (1), plural (3+), and dual (2). It was already on the way out in the Old English texts we have. Its descendants lost the dual totally, giving us the modern singular (1) and plural (2+). Both is a carry-over from this system.
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To answer the general question in your title: Yes, it can. "The majority of his paintings feature either children, fishermen, or old people --This England, Autumn 1983", excerpt from MWCDEU page 293. You can also find related info on this type of coordination in the 2002 reference grammar by Huddleston and Pullum (et al.),
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#1 This is a doubt that has been lingering me for a long time. Could I say e.g.: « Esperar means both "to wait", "to hope" and "to expect"». My initial thought is that we can't, because "both" is always linked with the concept of "two" (as in both vs. all three ). If so, how can we rephrase the sentence or any other similar example? entangledbank
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London. English - South-East England. May 31, 2012. #8. That's right - 'both' is restricted to two items, unlike 'either' which allows more than two. In your sentence, I would use 'all three of': You have to bring all three of your passport, invitation letter and payment receipt to pass security control.
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The word both is not necessary, but would be added for emphasis if there were something unusual about wanting more than one item. For example, if he had been offered one item but wanted two or three instead. If you wanted to add the same emphasis with three items, there is no single word for that, but you could say it like this: