Sunday, February 10, 2008

Either…Or


‘Every dish in this restaurant is either grilled, roasted or baked in a wood fire oven’ (subheading, Sunday Times Lifestyle, 10 February 2008, p. 26).

Careless sub-editor?

The correlative conjunctions either…or and neither…nor may be used with only two options, but in the above example there are three (grilled, roasted, baked).

Simply omit the word either — it serves no purpose anyway.

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