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sflaum
 
Reply Sat 28 Apr, 2018 11:34 am
In the sentence: "Which would you like, coffee or tea," what part of the sentence structure is "coffee or tea?"

Is "which, coffee or tea" a split noun phrase that serves as the direct object? That seems odd. In "which, coffee or tea," "coffee or tea" looks like an appositive, but appositives cannot be separated.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Sat 28 Apr, 2018 07:01 pm
@sflaum,
Both are nowns


Either...or is normally seen as exclusive disjunction.

EG

Either I will go swimming or see a movie. (I can also choose to do neither.)

But, in some contexts, either...or can be read as inclusive disjunction:

Father to teen son: Either see a movie or go swimming. Don't sit round here whining all day! (You must do at least one of those things,
but you are not precluded from doing both.)
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PUNKEY
 
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Reply Mon 30 Apr, 2018 06:24 am
Which is a relative pronoun. Change the question to a statement.

You/ would like/ Which > coffee or tea
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