difference between 'anyway' and 'by the way'.
You would use the two separate words "any way" ONLY to indicate that alternate means or modes are acceptable. [ "You can do this assignment (in) any way you choose."
But the adverb "anyway" indicates an inevitable conclusion regardless of the means of attempt. "We were going to do the assignment anyway."
The confusion may arise from their use in motive travel or in steps to a process. For example "We couldn''t get there any way." "We couldn't get there anyway." In the first case a preposition "in" or "by" is omitted and the word "any" is used to mean "none of the many possible". In the
second, "anyway" substitutes for "regardless".
*The stand-alone interjection is simply a segue from one idea to another, ending the original topic and moving to another, and is almost always conversational. "Anyway, I have to get back to work."
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