6.92 different or additional places

'Else' is used after the indefinite place adverb to indicate a different or additional place.

• We could hold the meeting somewhere else.
• More people die in bed than anywhere else.

'Elsewhere' can be used instead of 'somewhere else'.

• Gwen pulled down a folding seat and strapped herself in. The other girls had found seats elsewhere.
• Elsewhere in the tropics, rainfall is notoriously variable and unreliable.

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'Everywhere' and 'anywhere' can also be used as the subjects of verbs, especially 'be'.

• Sometimes I feel that anywhere, just anywhere, would be better than this.
• I looked around for a shop where I could buy chocolate, but everywhere was closed.