English Phrase of the Day

Definitions

English > English
everyone else
1. pron. All other persons.
Analysis
everyone		©
1. pron. Every person.
else		©
1. adj. (postpositive, used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
2. adv. (follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not.
How else (=in what other way) can it be done?
I'm busy Friday; when else (=what other time) works for you?

Example Sentences

I know that sounds so selfish but I would like very much to feel equal to everyone else that is dear to me.  Patients are nice people, like everyone else, and so are psychiatrists.  Don, of course, is willing to go along with anything I can arrange, but everyone else is either going to a conference, or on vacation, or sabbatical, or whatever.  If everyone else had a scooter, I had to have a better one.  Everyone gets heckled by everyone else.

Review previous phrases