{"id":726,"date":"2009-06-15T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T23:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2009-06-12T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T01:18:51","slug":"either-neither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/06\/either-neither\/","title":{"rendered":"Either, neither&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the use of either and neither (rather than the spelling) that people seem to have trouble with &#8211; I have just edited a 40 page document which repeatedly misused either\/or.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>either:<\/strong> <\/span>an introduction of two alternatives separated by the word or<br \/>\n<em>You can either buy or rent this property<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">neither:<\/span> <\/strong>an introduction of two unavailable alternatives separated by the word nor<br \/>\n<em>neither John nor Mary can run the meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What is important to note is that both words refer to a choice of TWO options &#8211; if there is a list of choices, either\/neither can&#8217;t be used.<\/p>\n<p>wrong &#8211; You can choose either chocolate or vanilla or strawberry.<br \/>\ncorrect &#8211; You can chose either chocolate or strawberry.<br \/>\ncorrect &#8211; You can choose chocolate, vanilla or strawberry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the use of either and neither (rather than the spelling) that people seem to have trouble with &#8211; I have just edited a 40 page document which repeatedly misused either\/or. either: an introduction of two alternatives separated by the word or You can either buy or rent this property neither: an introduction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[947,943,119,944,946,945],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-alternatives","tag-either","tag-meaning","tag-neither","tag-nor","tag-or"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}