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]).
- “But the letter had also a greater distance to come.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 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 - And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - In the same manner I can also tell when I am pulling against the current.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - 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