OTHER


Meaning of OTHER in English

pronoun

1

BAD : 'Go and play with some others children,' she said.

GOOD : 'Go and play with some other children,' she said.

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When used before a noun, other never has an s : 'Do you have any other shoes besides the brown ones?'

Compare: 'Besides the brown shoes, do you have any others?'

2

BAD : It tells us all about nouns, verbs, adjectives and others.

GOOD : It tells us all about such things as nouns, verbs and adjectives.

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Do not use and others at the end of a list of examples. In some styles it is possible to use etc for this purpose, but in formal styles it is safer to use such as (or such ... as ): 'Candidates' performance in the test was influenced by factors such as age, sex, attitude and first language.'

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