ELSE = other; different; extra

1. We use ELSE after the following words to mean other, another, different or additional:

i) Is there anything else with you?
ii) No seat is vacant here. Let’s go somewhere else.
iii) I had nothing else to do.
iv) What else do you need apart from new shoes?

NOTE: We don’t use ELSE after WHICH; e.g.

INCORRECT: Which else do you want apart from this red shirt?
CORRECT: Which other one do you want apart from this blue shirt?

2. Or Else

OR ELSE is a conjunction with a similar meaning to OR; e.g.

I’ll have to leave now, or else I’ll miss my train.

NOTE: Sometimes OR is dropped from OR ELSE, and we use only ELSE; e.g.

My brother is poor,  and I want to look as much like him as I can, else he may feel distant from me

3. Preposition with ELSE

If needed we use prepositions such as BUT, EXCEPT, and BESIDES with ELSE (not THAN); e.g.

No  one else but Reema saw the accident.

INCORRECT: I have nobody else with me to play than Kanchan.
CORRECT: I have nobody else with me to play but Kanchan.

4. Possessive Pronouns with ELSE

When a possessive pronoun is needed with ELSE, the possessive form is generally written by putting ( ‘s ) with ELSE; e. g.

INCORRECT: That must be someone’s else book.
CORRECT: That must be someone else’s book.

NOTE: We do not use WHOSE ELSE’S, instead we say WHO ELSE’S or WHOSE ELSE; e.g.

INCORRECT: Whose else’s book could it have been?
CORRECT: Who else’s book could it have been? OR Whose else book could it have been?

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