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Bookmark or Share- Equivalent of "both" when referring to three or more items?Interesting, thanks! Unfortunately that doesn't seem to me to be usable either, as "There are several recommendations I have to further improve the sites — all three to improve their profit, decrease their cost and improve their usability." sounds like the "three" counts the recommendations. –
- punctuation - Rules for three sets of quotation marks - English ...What rules are there for when you have three sets of quotation marks? “I saw that Julia was really annoyed when Mike answered, “‘Blade Runner,’”” John said. (‘Blade Runner’ in singles. Mike answered in doubles. John said in doubles.) “I saw that Julia was really annoyed when Mike answered, ‘“Blade Runner,”’” John said.
- What's the best way to use "either" on more than two options?Either--Or statement is used to choose between two given options , in the sentence you mention , there are three given choices , so . Either remove one option or. Write the sentence simply like : I can classify all pitches as fast balls , breaking balls and/or off-speed pitches.
- Why do people use all 3 components in their gender pronouns?The three pronoun format (e.g., "he/him/his") is an obvious and hard-to-misunderstand way of communicating a person's personal gender pronouns. It is just convention, and even then, the two pronoun format (e.g., "he/him", dropping the possessive) is even more popular now.
- Is there a word analogous to "dual" for three or more options?Three-way has connotations of some sort of physical object or direction, that I don't want either. Triadic might work but it is of Greek origin, whereas dual and trinal are from Latin. Paucal, is not specific to three, but is a good alternative to multiple.
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