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Grammatics: is "some other else" a valid construction?
For native English speakers how odd or how redundant or wrong is to write "some other else" (in contrast to nothing else, alternatively to anything else)? Is total no sense or it might be of some use facing the applied cirscuntances?
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- shoby_shoby2003Lv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
the phrase you are looking for is "something else"...
"some other else" makes no sense
- 1 decade ago
In the English language, there are two groups of constructions which are used with any,no and some. For objects, the grouping is "anything else", "something else", or "nothing else". Notice that all use "thing" in relation to the object. In contrast, when discussing people, the grouping is "anyone else", "someone else", or "noone else". All use "one" to refer to a person. Were you to describe a particular object (or person), instead of the general term "thing", the construction would use "besides" or "but". "Any car besides that car, no other car besides that car, some other car besides that car" "any car but that car, no car but that car, some car but not that car" Alternatively you could use "other" "any other car, some other car, no other car" But "other" and "else" are not used together.
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- 1 decade ago
That's very redundant, but maybe the person is trying to put emphasis on there point. Sometimes people like to repeat themselves to bring there point across. This person might have been trying to be creative.
- 1 decade ago
It doesn't sound natural because 'else' is an adjective. 'Some other' must be followed by a noun.
'something else' is possible, but if you want to give emphasis you could also say 'some other thing'.
That also extends to some other time, some other person, etc.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
no, it's not a valid construction....
perhaps "something else" or "something other than", but it's difficult to figure out what you're trying to say
- 1 decade ago
"Something else" would be better; some other else is tautology - "else" and "other" mean the same, so one of the is redundant