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Message board > GRAMMAR QUESTION : ANOTHER, OTHER
GRAMMAR QUESTION : ANOTHER, OTHER
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Missfrancisca
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GRAMMAR QUESTION : ANOTHER, OTHER
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I was correcting some of my students � essays and noticed they make a lot of mistakes using another , other , others. I try to prepare a lesson to explain it but to my susprise I also got confused. I have learnt that another combines with singular as a pronoun and adjective and other with plural as an adjective and as a pronoun we use others. But I have seen several examples where "other" is used with singular as well. Can you help me to solve amy doubt? |
22 Jan 2010
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HollyHirst
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The only examples I can think of (at the moment, it could be that I need to think it through a bit more) that use other with singular are ones that include a definite article e.g. the other men. This makes sense because another is basically a combination of the indefinite article and other, so if we need a definite article we take away the �an � and use �the �. I don �t know if that helps. If it doesn �t give me another example and I �ll get back to you!
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22 Jan 2010
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Zora
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Well, I always explain it as "another" meaning one more or a different one... example: This is another problem on the page. I need another pen, mine doesn �t work.
"Other" - one (s) that is different. example: - His other house is in Paris. The other pen is red.
"Take the other apples over there instead. They are fresher."
Others - referring to a group of people/things that are similar to something else. - example:
There are others in our same situation.
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22 Jan 2010
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baiba
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Zora, isn �t it right to think that the other means the second person/thing of a pair?
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22 Jan 2010
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Zora
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Yes, baiba - as long as "the other" goes with a singular noun.
i.e. The other women at the congress were doctors and lawyers. - here it �s not referring to a second one/pair but to another group(s) that is different.
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22 Jan 2010
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yanogator
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In essence, Baiba is still right, though. If we expand that explanation to a division between "these" and "those", it �s the second of a "pair" (so to speak) of groups.
All of the explanations above are excellent, and seem to be complete.
Bruce |
23 Jan 2010
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