How can I connect sentences together using something equivalent to "or"?

Japanese Language Grammar
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I know that you can use か in a sentence as the Japanese equivalent to “or” between two nouns, but what do I use when I want to connect two sentences together in a similar way? An example of the type of sentence I’d want to say in Japanese is “Either I run, or you swim”. (As a side question, can you use か between adjectives like you can with nouns?)

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I actually had the same problem, so I asked a native and their suggestions were または or あるいは.

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または and あるいは are, of course, not wrong, but I think それか is the most natural in casual conversation.

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Thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it!

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I think I may have seen または before as 又は, but is it just more standard to write it without the kanji in this case?

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You would be correct.

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Ah, ok. Thanks for clarifying!

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