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Are you describing two cases or writing a procedure in which the user
much choose one of two possible paths?
"In both cases, X happens."
"In either case, do X."
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
> Hello, WR-L-ers,
>
> I’m sure that there must be a preferred or more grammatically correct version, but the following seem to mean the same thing when used after an introductory sentence that describes two different behaviors, and then I want to describe something that the two behaviors have in common:
>
> * In either case, blah-blah-blah.
> * In both cases, blah-blah-blah.
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