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Subject:Re: either From:"Dave L. Meek's User Account" <dave -at- DISC-SYNERGY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 19 Jan 1995 09:58:34 -0800
From "American Usage and Style: The Consensus" by Roy H.
Copperud:
"The point is that 'either . . . or,' as correlative
conjunctions, must be placed in grammatically parallel
positions."
This supports Ray's placement of "either" after the verb "are,"
as the sentence in question is written.
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Dave Meek
