adjective
definition
(used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
example
The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
adverb
definition
(follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not.
example
How else (=in what other way) can it be done?
conjunction
definition
For otherwise; or else.
example
Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.
Examples of else in a Sentence
Someone else carries this baby for you.
We're going somewhere else to talk.
What else can you do?
Go brush your teeth - and whatever else you need to do.
Almost everyone else had already left, so Katie and Mary volunteered to help.
Reminds me of someone else I know.
That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
Who else had he told?
She needed something else to do - something creative.
Something else was going on.
I didn't tell Howard or anyone else anything about you.
Who hasn't sat at a stop light and been so distracted by something else that they didn't notice the light was green?
He seemed oblivious to anyone else in the house as he carried her down the hallway to her room.
What else did he know or suspect?
Of course, once she had convinced everyone else what a foolish move it would be, how was she going to convince herself that she didn't need Brandon in her life?
Not when everything else was working out so well.
Like two bull Elk, they were each so focused on pushing the other back that they had forgotten anyone else existed.
Was it really so important what Brandon or anyone else thought?
It was that anything else that concerned her the most.
Then something else crossed her mind.
In any case, he found something else interesting.
I don't have anything else!
Of course; how else could I see it?
What else has happened to make you think she is trying to break us up?
Is someone else muscling in on me?
What else has been achieved in our march toward civilization?
It was difficult to believe that Connie would tell Allen, knowing his weakness for alcohol, but how else would he have known?
All else aside, would she want to marry a man like Yancey – so moody and secretive?
When computers are in your clothes, medicine, eyeglasses, wallet, tires, walls, makeup, jewelry, cookware, tennis shoes, binoculars, and everything else you own, those things will do more than you can imagine—the stuff of science fiction.
In Beverly Hills, your poor neighbor might be one who had to buy the 14K-gold back scratcher instead of the diamond-encrusted platinum one everyone else is buying.
Boris belonged to the latter and no one else, while showing servile respect to Kutuzov, could so create an impression that the old fellow was not much good and that Bennigsen managed everything.
I know you've been preoccupied, but everyone else has noticed his interest in you.
She was the maid, the baby sitter - nothing else in his eyes.
Why else would he be so concerned about her excursions in the woods?
No one should decide what someone else should value or spend his money on.
When you read somewhere else that food produced by large corporations saved millions of lives, you won't believe that.
Then someone else decides to send that child, at eighteen, to another land to kill people and to die?
I always knew when she wished me to bring her something, and I would run upstairs or anywhere else she indicated.
Next to my own dear teacher, he has done more than any one else to enrich and broaden my mind.
It was of small dimensions, with a peaked cottage roof, and not much else to be seen, the dirt being raised five feet all around as if it were a compost heap.
Who else should it be?
For God's sake send me somewhere else if only in command of a regiment.
Ah yes, there was something else important, very important, that I was keeping till I should be in bed.
They can have my trap, or else what is to become of them?
He had a lot on his plate right now... the twins, his father and who knew what else?
Well, I guess we were making everyone else feel uncomfortable.
Maybe he didn't want anyone else to know.
It was something else... maybe the mystery?
What else was there to say?
Anything else she divulged should go to Howard, not Connie.