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Literary notes about also (AI summary)

The word “also” serves as a subtle tool for adding information or emphasizing an additional element within a sentence. It frequently appears to augment details without breaking the narrative flow, as seen when it links distant aspects of a subject’s journey ([1]) or when it highlights an extra character or action in a story ([2], [3]). In philosophical and doctrinal writings, it helps extend an argument or attribute by connecting related ideas ([4], [5]), while in historical narratives and even instructional texts it bridges multiple facts smoothly ([6], [7]). In each instance, “also” enriches the prose by indicating that what follows is as significant as what precedes it ([8], [9]).
  1. “But the letter had also a greater distance to come.”
    — from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  2. And the great Muni, possessed also of extraordinary wisdom, addressing the monarch, said,—“Return, O king, thy wish is fulfilled.
    — from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
  3. And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto: but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  5. Not only is it true that the animal has no others, but also our own personal conduct frequently supposes nothing more.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
  6. The above is a very easy feat; but it is also required to find the two arrangements giving pairs of the highest and lowest products possible.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  7. He sent also to King Edward, and requested of him naval aid, that he might not permit him to escape from him by water.
    — from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  8. In the same manner I can also tell when I am pulling against the current.
    — from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  9. We are also responsible for our health, although into this sphere there enter some elements of necessity which may be beyond our control.
    — from The Republic of Plato by Plato

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