The phrase "something alternative" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a thing or idea which is different from the thing or idea being discussed. For example: "We had trouble finding a solution to the problem, so we decided to look for something alternative."
£65, Liberty 14. Plasma ball If your teen wants something alternative, this plasma ball is great.
Labour governments from Wilson to Brown never quite found the way to put something alternative and persuasive in the old Britain's place.
There was this new wave of kids, Nico Muhly's generation, who didn't think of urban culture in the same ghettoised way and had no sense that what they belonged to was something alternative and underground.
That's something alternative keyboard makers had long been hoping for.
Ms Fell said: "The original idea was to provide a space where festival artists could come and let their hair down and do something alternative and experimental that they couldn't get away with at Snape Maltings.
This is the time of year when publishing houses start rolling out their holiday books for out-of-touch aunts to buy their 20-something "alternative" nephews and vice versa.
Where should you go for something truly alternative?
Brilliant divertissements like the Brasserie restaurant, the performance piece "Jet Lag," and "Suitcase Studies," a traveling museum show on the subject of tourism, increased our impatience for something less alternative.
The idea of a child as a sinister and frightening figure is a powerful one because it seems so unnatural, so wrong, and that is something this alternative poster expresses very well.
But when countries run persistent current-account deficits, foreigners have to buy something; the alternative is for them to own government bonds.Much has been made in recent years of the freedom of developed countries to devalue their own currencies and use "financial repression" to keep real interest rates low or negative.
