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Else and compound words

1)   The compound forms of some, any, no, every ...   are followed by ELSE. All are singular, including 'everyone else'.

ex : No! I'm not going to do it for you... Find somebody else to help!

ex : The music is bad here... Let's go somewhere else ! (= elsewhere) 

ex : Do not insist! She told us nothing else about herself, I can't answer your questions...

-    => something else /anything else? 

2) Similarly, Interrogatives  who, what, where, (not) much,   are followed by  ELSE.

ex : Jim and Pete were at the meeting but who else was ?

ex : What else would you like to drink? 

3) The possessive case  follows ‘somebody else' : to be in someone else's shoes = to be in someone else's place. 

ex : Oh dear... I've taken somebody else's umbrella...

4) OR ELSE  = otherwise.

ex : Let's go now... or else, we'll miss our train! 

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