Either vs. Whether
Eitherdeterminer
One of two.
Eitherdeterminer
Each of two; both.
Eitherpronoun
One or other of two people or things.
Eitherpronoun
(obsolete) Both, each of two or more.
Eitheradverb
As well.
Eitherconjunction
Introduces the first of two (or occasionally more) options or possibilities, the second (or last) of which is introduced by "or".
Eitheradjective
One of two; the one or the other; - properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.
Eitheradjective
Each of two; the one and the other; both; - formerly, also, each of any number.
Eitherconjunction
Either precedes two, or more, coördinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
Eitheradverb
after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also';
Eitherconjunction
used before the first of two (or occasionally more) given alternatives (the other being introduced by ‘or’)
Eitherconjunction
used to indicate a similarity or link with a statement just made
Eitherconjunction
for that matter; moreover
Eitheradverb
used before the first of two (or occasionally more) given alternatives (the other being introduced by ‘or’)
Eitheradverb
used to indicate a similarity or link with a statement just made
Eitheradverb
Eitheradverb
for that matter; moreover
Eitherdeterminer
one or the other of two people or things
Eitherdeterminer
each of two
Eitherpronoun
one or the other of two people or things
Eitherpronoun
Eitherpronoun
each of two
Whetherdeterminer
(obsolete) Which of two.
Whetherpronoun
(obsolete) Which of two.
Whetherconjunction
(obsolete) Introducing a direct interrogative question (often with correlative or) which indicates doubt between alternatives.
Whetherconjunction
Used to introduce an indirect interrogative question that consists of multiple alternative possibilities (usually with correlative or).
Whetherconjunction
Without a correlative, used to introduce a simple indirect question.
Whetherconjunction
Used to introduce a disjunctive adverbial clause which qualifies the main clause of the sentence (with correlative or).
Whetherpronoun
Which (of two); which one (of two); - used interrogatively and relatively.
Whetherconjunction
In case; if; - used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle not or no after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the whether of the first.
