A sentence is given with a phrase highlighted in bold. Which of the phrases given below the sentence should replace it improve the sentence? If the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, select 'No correction required' as your answer. You’ve met Oliver, but I have other brother whom you haven’t met, called Lucas.

A sentence is given with a phrase highlighted in bold. Which of the phrases given below the sentence should replace it improve the sentence? If the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, select 'No correction required' as your answer. You’ve met Oliver, but I have other brother whom you haven’t met, called Lucas. Correct Answer I have another

The correct answer is Option 2)i.e. I have another. 

Key Points

• In the given sentence, the subject ‘I’ have already introduced my brother ‘Oliver’ and now we are talking about a different brother.
• The use of ‘other’ is incorrect before ‘brother.’❌
• The most appropriate determiner for the given sentence is ‘another’.✔️
• When we use the indefinite article ‘an’ before other, we write it as one word another. ‘Another’ means ‘one more, an additional, extra, an alternative or different’.
  • Example: Is there another café around here we could go to? (alternative or different)
• We use another with singular nouns.
• Here, in the given sentence ‘brother’ is a singular noun.
•  Therefore, by reading the above explanation we find that option 2 is correct.

?Correct sentence: You’ve met Oliver, but I have another brother whom you haven’t met, called Lucas.✔️

Additional Information 

• Another is singular. We don’t use it with plural nouns.
  • Example: Another interesting places to visit include the old harbor and the castle.❌(Incorrect)
  • Example: Other interesting places to visit include the old harbor and the castle.✔️(Correct)
• We write another as one word.
  • Example: There is an other car park a little further down the same street.❌ (Incorrect)
  • Example: There is another car park a little further down the same street.✔️ (Correct)
• The words another and other mean the same thing, except that another is used with a singular noun and other is used with uncountable and plural nouns.