Is there any specific word for extra or unwanted word in a sentence?
There are certain words, if absent in a given sentence does not make any difference.
For an example,
Either today is Monday or Tuesday.
Can also be written as:
Today is Monday or Tuesday.
These two sentences are exactly same without any loss of meaning per se.
The only word that came across in my mind is filler. But, I am not happy with this word. It does not encompass entire meaning to what I am looking for.
If I want to say:
"Either is called ____ in above example. Its absence in the sentence will not make any difference in the meaning of the given sentence."
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There are certain words, if absent in a given sentence does not make any difference.
For an example,
Either today is Monday or Tuesday.
Can also be written as:
Today is Monday or Tuesday.
These two sentences are exactly same without any loss of meaning per se.
The only word that came across in my mind is filler. But, I am not happy with this word. It does not encompass entire meaning to what I am looking for.
If I want to say:
"Either is called ____ in above example. Its absence in the sentence will not make any difference in the meaning of the given sentence."
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Either in the above sentence is not unnecessary. It serves a purpose. You may find a better example.
– Kris
yesterday
I am studying logic and this example is coming right from well know book. Also, there are tons of similar examples where Either ... OR is simply normalized to OR because Either doesn't add any extra sense to sentence.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Good that you are approaching it from the logic perspective. Either is not unnecessary. It is part of the structure. However, it may be dropped without change of meaning because it is understood (to be there). You see the logic of omitting it, I suppose.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris Is this sentence grammatically incomplete: "Today is Monday or Tuesday." Thanks for taking interest in my question :)
– GATECSE
yesterday
To me usage of "Either" (also given in book) is optional.
– GATECSE
yesterday
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There are certain words, if absent in a given sentence does not make any difference.
For an example,
Either today is Monday or Tuesday.
Can also be written as:
Today is Monday or Tuesday.
These two sentences are exactly same without any loss of meaning per se.
The only word that came across in my mind is filler. But, I am not happy with this word. It does not encompass entire meaning to what I am looking for.
If I want to say:
"Either is called ____ in above example. Its absence in the sentence will not make any difference in the meaning of the given sentence."
single-word-requests
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There are certain words, if absent in a given sentence does not make any difference.
For an example,
Either today is Monday or Tuesday.
Can also be written as:
Today is Monday or Tuesday.
These two sentences are exactly same without any loss of meaning per se.
The only word that came across in my mind is filler. But, I am not happy with this word. It does not encompass entire meaning to what I am looking for.
If I want to say:
"Either is called ____ in above example. Its absence in the sentence will not make any difference in the meaning of the given sentence."
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Either in the above sentence is not unnecessary. It serves a purpose. You may find a better example.
– Kris
yesterday
I am studying logic and this example is coming right from well know book. Also, there are tons of similar examples where Either ... OR is simply normalized to OR because Either doesn't add any extra sense to sentence.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Good that you are approaching it from the logic perspective. Either is not unnecessary. It is part of the structure. However, it may be dropped without change of meaning because it is understood (to be there). You see the logic of omitting it, I suppose.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris Is this sentence grammatically incomplete: "Today is Monday or Tuesday." Thanks for taking interest in my question :)
– GATECSE
yesterday
To me usage of "Either" (also given in book) is optional.
– GATECSE
yesterday
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Either in the above sentence is not unnecessary. It serves a purpose. You may find a better example.
– Kris
yesterday
I am studying logic and this example is coming right from well know book. Also, there are tons of similar examples where Either ... OR is simply normalized to OR because Either doesn't add any extra sense to sentence.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Good that you are approaching it from the logic perspective. Either is not unnecessary. It is part of the structure. However, it may be dropped without change of meaning because it is understood (to be there). You see the logic of omitting it, I suppose.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris Is this sentence grammatically incomplete: "Today is Monday or Tuesday." Thanks for taking interest in my question :)
– GATECSE
yesterday
To me usage of "Either" (also given in book) is optional.
– GATECSE
yesterday
1
1
Either in the above sentence is not unnecessary. It serves a purpose. You may find a better example.
– Kris
yesterday
Either in the above sentence is not unnecessary. It serves a purpose. You may find a better example.
– Kris
yesterday
I am studying logic and this example is coming right from well know book. Also, there are tons of similar examples where Either ... OR is simply normalized to OR because Either doesn't add any extra sense to sentence.
– GATECSE
yesterday
I am studying logic and this example is coming right from well know book. Also, there are tons of similar examples where Either ... OR is simply normalized to OR because Either doesn't add any extra sense to sentence.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Good that you are approaching it from the logic perspective. Either is not unnecessary. It is part of the structure. However, it may be dropped without change of meaning because it is understood (to be there). You see the logic of omitting it, I suppose.
– Kris
yesterday
Good that you are approaching it from the logic perspective. Either is not unnecessary. It is part of the structure. However, it may be dropped without change of meaning because it is understood (to be there). You see the logic of omitting it, I suppose.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris Is this sentence grammatically incomplete: "Today is Monday or Tuesday." Thanks for taking interest in my question :)
– GATECSE
yesterday
@Kris Is this sentence grammatically incomplete: "Today is Monday or Tuesday." Thanks for taking interest in my question :)
– GATECSE
yesterday
To me usage of "Either" (also given in book) is optional.
– GATECSE
yesterday
To me usage of "Either" (also given in book) is optional.
– GATECSE
yesterday
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Either today is Monday or Tuesday contains the correlative conjunctions either/or. Peters in The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (p300) lists correlatives as one example of grammatical redundancy. She defines redundancy as:
...a general term referring to where the same grammatical meaning is
expressed more than once in a clause or sentence.
She says that the use of correlatives makes for 'good style', and notes that redundancy such as in the inclusion of either in the OP's example:
...is particularly useful in spoken discourse because speech is a
linear form of communication that disappears into the air waves. The
repetition or underscoring that goes with redundancy helps ensure
that details of the message don't get lost.
So, to complete the OP's sentence:
"Either is redundant in above example. Its absence in the sentence will not make any difference in the meaning of the given sentence."
(But its inclusion serves to underscore the alternative nature of the
two elements Monday or Tuesday.)
Another term which denotes the inclusion of superfluous words is tautology. Tautology refers to the repeated expression of the same idea in a single phrase or predication (Peters, 335):
For example the free gift used in advertising copy; or the phrase in
the classroom context where "context" adds an unnecessary
superordinate to the preceding adverbial.
Pleonasm is the term that subsumes redundancy and tautology (Wikipedia links).
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I am happy with your answer :) Can you please use it in the given sentence? I will appreciate it. Thank you every much. You captured the idea I was trying to express.
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And sorry, I don't have enough reputations to up vote your answer.
– GATECSE
yesterday
@EVG. Done. (As far as I know all askers can accept their chosen answer to the question they posed.)
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This word can be called
superfluous.
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superfluous):
1a: exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
: EXTRA
b: not needed
: UNNECESSARY
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The word superfluous is used in relation with something extra or more. Like you ask me 5 apples and I give you 10 apples at that time 5 extra apples are superfluous. I am looking for word which means - not needed in first place. Thank you any ways!
– GATECSE
yesterday
Note "b: not needed" in the answer above.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris "b: not needed" because it is extra than required. Whereas I am looking for: not needed in first place at all.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Please make it clearer. See also my comment at the question.
– Kris
yesterday
add a comment |
By having "it is either" announces the day can be no other than the two presented without arguement.
Without it, the sentance allows space to say (for example) " no, it's still Sunday".
Ergo, it has a purpose and not superfluous.
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Well I am sorry to say, but you are wrong here.
– GATECSE
yesterday
How am I wrong? By setting parameters...i
– melt
yesterday
+1 Quite so. The use of either explicitly restricts the choices to only the two options presented. There is a semantic difference between I don't know what to do. I could watch a movie or read a book . . . and I don't know what to do. I could either watch a movie or read a book . . . Without either, there is the possibility of deciding something other than those two choices.
– Jason Bassford
18 hours ago
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Either today is Monday or Tuesday contains the correlative conjunctions either/or. Peters in The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (p300) lists correlatives as one example of grammatical redundancy. She defines redundancy as:
...a general term referring to where the same grammatical meaning is
expressed more than once in a clause or sentence.
She says that the use of correlatives makes for 'good style', and notes that redundancy such as in the inclusion of either in the OP's example:
...is particularly useful in spoken discourse because speech is a
linear form of communication that disappears into the air waves. The
repetition or underscoring that goes with redundancy helps ensure
that details of the message don't get lost.
So, to complete the OP's sentence:
"Either is redundant in above example. Its absence in the sentence will not make any difference in the meaning of the given sentence."
(But its inclusion serves to underscore the alternative nature of the
two elements Monday or Tuesday.)
Another term which denotes the inclusion of superfluous words is tautology. Tautology refers to the repeated expression of the same idea in a single phrase or predication (Peters, 335):
For example the free gift used in advertising copy; or the phrase in
the classroom context where "context" adds an unnecessary
superordinate to the preceding adverbial.
Pleonasm is the term that subsumes redundancy and tautology (Wikipedia links).
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I am happy with your answer :) Can you please use it in the given sentence? I will appreciate it. Thank you every much. You captured the idea I was trying to express.
– GATECSE
yesterday
And sorry, I don't have enough reputations to up vote your answer.
– GATECSE
yesterday
@EVG. Done. (As far as I know all askers can accept their chosen answer to the question they posed.)
– Shoe
yesterday
add a comment |
Either today is Monday or Tuesday contains the correlative conjunctions either/or. Peters in The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (p300) lists correlatives as one example of grammatical redundancy. She defines redundancy as:
...a general term referring to where the same grammatical meaning is
expressed more than once in a clause or sentence.
She says that the use of correlatives makes for 'good style', and notes that redundancy such as in the inclusion of either in the OP's example:
...is particularly useful in spoken discourse because speech is a
linear form of communication that disappears into the air waves. The
repetition or underscoring that goes with redundancy helps ensure
that details of the message don't get lost.
So, to complete the OP's sentence:
"Either is redundant in above example. Its absence in the sentence will not make any difference in the meaning of the given sentence."
(But its inclusion serves to underscore the alternative nature of the
two elements Monday or Tuesday.)
Another term which denotes the inclusion of superfluous words is tautology. Tautology refers to the repeated expression of the same idea in a single phrase or predication (Peters, 335):
For example the free gift used in advertising copy; or the phrase in
the classroom context where "context" adds an unnecessary
superordinate to the preceding adverbial.
Pleonasm is the term that subsumes redundancy and tautology (Wikipedia links).
answered yesterday
ShoeShoe
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I am happy with your answer :) Can you please use it in the given sentence? I will appreciate it. Thank you every much. You captured the idea I was trying to express.
– GATECSE
yesterday
And sorry, I don't have enough reputations to up vote your answer.
– GATECSE
yesterday
@EVG. Done. (As far as I know all askers can accept their chosen answer to the question they posed.)
– Shoe
yesterday
add a comment |
Either today is Monday or Tuesday contains the correlative conjunctions either/or. Peters in The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (p300) lists correlatives as one example of grammatical redundancy. She defines redundancy as:
...a general term referring to where the same grammatical meaning is
expressed more than once in a clause or sentence.
She says that the use of correlatives makes for 'good style', and notes that redundancy such as in the inclusion of either in the OP's example:
...is particularly useful in spoken discourse because speech is a
linear form of communication that disappears into the air waves. The
repetition or underscoring that goes with redundancy helps ensure
that details of the message don't get lost.
So, to complete the OP's sentence:
"Either is redundant in above example. Its absence in the sentence will not make any difference in the meaning of the given sentence."
(But its inclusion serves to underscore the alternative nature of the
two elements Monday or Tuesday.)
Another term which denotes the inclusion of superfluous words is tautology. Tautology refers to the repeated expression of the same idea in a single phrase or predication (Peters, 335):
For example the free gift used in advertising copy; or the phrase in
the classroom context where "context" adds an unnecessary
superordinate to the preceding adverbial.
Pleonasm is the term that subsumes redundancy and tautology (Wikipedia links).
answered yesterday
ShoeShoe
25.4k43888
Either today is Monday or Tuesday contains the correlative conjunctions either/or. Peters in The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (p300) lists correlatives as one example of grammatical redundancy. She defines redundancy as:
...a general term referring to where the same grammatical meaning is
expressed more than once in a clause or sentence.
She says that the use of correlatives makes for 'good style', and notes that redundancy such as in the inclusion of either in the OP's example:
...is particularly useful in spoken discourse because speech is a
linear form of communication that disappears into the air waves. The
repetition or underscoring that goes with redundancy helps ensure
that details of the message don't get lost.
So, to complete the OP's sentence:
"Either is redundant in above example. Its absence in the sentence will not make any difference in the meaning of the given sentence."
(But its inclusion serves to underscore the alternative nature of the
two elements Monday or Tuesday.)
Another term which denotes the inclusion of superfluous words is tautology. Tautology refers to the repeated expression of the same idea in a single phrase or predication (Peters, 335):
For example the free gift used in advertising copy; or the phrase in
the classroom context where "context" adds an unnecessary
superordinate to the preceding adverbial.
Pleonasm is the term that subsumes redundancy and tautology (Wikipedia links).
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I am happy with your answer :) Can you please use it in the given sentence? I will appreciate it. Thank you every much. You captured the idea I was trying to express.
– GATECSE
yesterday
And sorry, I don't have enough reputations to up vote your answer.
– GATECSE
yesterday
@EVG. Done. (As far as I know all askers can accept their chosen answer to the question they posed.)
– Shoe
yesterday
add a comment |
I am happy with your answer :) Can you please use it in the given sentence? I will appreciate it. Thank you every much. You captured the idea I was trying to express.
– GATECSE
yesterday
And sorry, I don't have enough reputations to up vote your answer.
– GATECSE
yesterday
@EVG. Done. (As far as I know all askers can accept their chosen answer to the question they posed.)
– Shoe
yesterday
I am happy with your answer :) Can you please use it in the given sentence? I will appreciate it. Thank you every much. You captured the idea I was trying to express.
– GATECSE
yesterday
I am happy with your answer :) Can you please use it in the given sentence? I will appreciate it. Thank you every much. You captured the idea I was trying to express.
– GATECSE
yesterday
And sorry, I don't have enough reputations to up vote your answer.
– GATECSE
yesterday
And sorry, I don't have enough reputations to up vote your answer.
– GATECSE
yesterday
@EVG. Done. (As far as I know all askers can accept their chosen answer to the question they posed.)
– Shoe
yesterday
@EVG. Done. (As far as I know all askers can accept their chosen answer to the question they posed.)
– Shoe
yesterday
add a comment |
This word can be called
superfluous.
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superfluous):
1a: exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
: EXTRA
b: not needed
: UNNECESSARY
answered yesterday
user307254user307254
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The word superfluous is used in relation with something extra or more. Like you ask me 5 apples and I give you 10 apples at that time 5 extra apples are superfluous. I am looking for word which means - not needed in first place. Thank you any ways!
– GATECSE
yesterday
Note "b: not needed" in the answer above.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris "b: not needed" because it is extra than required. Whereas I am looking for: not needed in first place at all.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Please make it clearer. See also my comment at the question.
– Kris
yesterday
add a comment |
This word can be called
superfluous.
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superfluous):
1a: exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
: EXTRA
b: not needed
: UNNECESSARY
answered yesterday
user307254user307254
5,5341517
The word superfluous is used in relation with something extra or more. Like you ask me 5 apples and I give you 10 apples at that time 5 extra apples are superfluous. I am looking for word which means - not needed in first place. Thank you any ways!
– GATECSE
yesterday
Note "b: not needed" in the answer above.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris "b: not needed" because it is extra than required. Whereas I am looking for: not needed in first place at all.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Please make it clearer. See also my comment at the question.
– Kris
yesterday
add a comment |
This word can be called
superfluous.
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superfluous):
1a: exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
: EXTRA
b: not needed
: UNNECESSARY
answered yesterday
user307254user307254
5,5341517
This word can be called
superfluous.
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superfluous):
1a: exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
: EXTRA
b: not needed
: UNNECESSARY
answered yesterday
user307254user307254
5,5341517
answered yesterday
user307254user307254
5,5341517
answered yesterday
user307254user307254
5,5341517
answered yesterday
user307254user307254
5,5341517
5,5341517
The word superfluous is used in relation with something extra or more. Like you ask me 5 apples and I give you 10 apples at that time 5 extra apples are superfluous. I am looking for word which means - not needed in first place. Thank you any ways!
– GATECSE
yesterday
Note "b: not needed" in the answer above.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris "b: not needed" because it is extra than required. Whereas I am looking for: not needed in first place at all.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Please make it clearer. See also my comment at the question.
– Kris
yesterday
add a comment |
The word superfluous is used in relation with something extra or more. Like you ask me 5 apples and I give you 10 apples at that time 5 extra apples are superfluous. I am looking for word which means - not needed in first place. Thank you any ways!
– GATECSE
yesterday
Note "b: not needed" in the answer above.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris "b: not needed" because it is extra than required. Whereas I am looking for: not needed in first place at all.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Please make it clearer. See also my comment at the question.
– Kris
yesterday
The word superfluous is used in relation with something extra or more. Like you ask me 5 apples and I give you 10 apples at that time 5 extra apples are superfluous. I am looking for word which means - not needed in first place. Thank you any ways!
– GATECSE
yesterday
The word superfluous is used in relation with something extra or more. Like you ask me 5 apples and I give you 10 apples at that time 5 extra apples are superfluous. I am looking for word which means - not needed in first place. Thank you any ways!
– GATECSE
yesterday
Note "b: not needed" in the answer above.
– Kris
yesterday
Note "b: not needed" in the answer above.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris "b: not needed" because it is extra than required. Whereas I am looking for: not needed in first place at all.
– GATECSE
yesterday
@Kris "b: not needed" because it is extra than required. Whereas I am looking for: not needed in first place at all.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Please make it clearer. See also my comment at the question.
– Kris
yesterday
Please make it clearer. See also my comment at the question.
– Kris
yesterday
add a comment |
By having "it is either" announces the day can be no other than the two presented without arguement.
Without it, the sentance allows space to say (for example) " no, it's still Sunday".
Ergo, it has a purpose and not superfluous.
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Well I am sorry to say, but you are wrong here.
– GATECSE
yesterday
How am I wrong? By setting parameters...i
– melt
yesterday
+1 Quite so. The use of either explicitly restricts the choices to only the two options presented. There is a semantic difference between I don't know what to do. I could watch a movie or read a book . . . and I don't know what to do. I could either watch a movie or read a book . . . Without either, there is the possibility of deciding something other than those two choices.
– Jason Bassford
18 hours ago
add a comment |
By having "it is either" announces the day can be no other than the two presented without arguement.
Without it, the sentance allows space to say (for example) " no, it's still Sunday".
Ergo, it has a purpose and not superfluous.
answered yesterday
meltmelt
112
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Well I am sorry to say, but you are wrong here.
– GATECSE
yesterday
How am I wrong? By setting parameters...i
– melt
yesterday
+1 Quite so. The use of either explicitly restricts the choices to only the two options presented. There is a semantic difference between I don't know what to do. I could watch a movie or read a book . . . and I don't know what to do. I could either watch a movie or read a book . . . Without either, there is the possibility of deciding something other than those two choices.
– Jason Bassford
18 hours ago
add a comment |
By having "it is either" announces the day can be no other than the two presented without arguement.
Without it, the sentance allows space to say (for example) " no, it's still Sunday".
Ergo, it has a purpose and not superfluous.
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By having "it is either" announces the day can be no other than the two presented without arguement.
Without it, the sentance allows space to say (for example) " no, it's still Sunday".
Ergo, it has a purpose and not superfluous.
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Well I am sorry to say, but you are wrong here.
– GATECSE
yesterday
How am I wrong? By setting parameters...i
– melt
yesterday
+1 Quite so. The use of either explicitly restricts the choices to only the two options presented. There is a semantic difference between I don't know what to do. I could watch a movie or read a book . . . and I don't know what to do. I could either watch a movie or read a book . . . Without either, there is the possibility of deciding something other than those two choices.
– Jason Bassford
18 hours ago
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Well I am sorry to say, but you are wrong here.
– GATECSE
yesterday
How am I wrong? By setting parameters...i
– melt
yesterday
+1 Quite so. The use of either explicitly restricts the choices to only the two options presented. There is a semantic difference between I don't know what to do. I could watch a movie or read a book . . . and I don't know what to do. I could either watch a movie or read a book . . . Without either, there is the possibility of deciding something other than those two choices.
– Jason Bassford
18 hours ago
Well I am sorry to say, but you are wrong here.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Well I am sorry to say, but you are wrong here.
– GATECSE
yesterday
How am I wrong? By setting parameters...i
– melt
yesterday
How am I wrong? By setting parameters...i
– melt
yesterday
+1 Quite so. The use of either explicitly restricts the choices to only the two options presented. There is a semantic difference between I don't know what to do. I could watch a movie or read a book . . . and I don't know what to do. I could either watch a movie or read a book . . . Without either, there is the possibility of deciding something other than those two choices.
– Jason Bassford
18 hours ago
+1 Quite so. The use of either explicitly restricts the choices to only the two options presented. There is a semantic difference between I don't know what to do. I could watch a movie or read a book . . . and I don't know what to do. I could either watch a movie or read a book . . . Without either, there is the possibility of deciding something other than those two choices.
– Jason Bassford
18 hours ago
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Either in the above sentence is not unnecessary. It serves a purpose. You may find a better example.
– Kris
yesterday
I am studying logic and this example is coming right from well know book. Also, there are tons of similar examples where Either ... OR is simply normalized to OR because Either doesn't add any extra sense to sentence.
– GATECSE
yesterday
Good that you are approaching it from the logic perspective. Either is not unnecessary. It is part of the structure. However, it may be dropped without change of meaning because it is understood (to be there). You see the logic of omitting it, I suppose.
– Kris
yesterday
@Kris Is this sentence grammatically incomplete: "Today is Monday or Tuesday." Thanks for taking interest in my question :)
– GATECSE
yesterday
To me usage of "Either" (also given in book) is optional.
– GATECSE
yesterday