Given below is a sentence that may or may not be grammatically viable, choose the most suitable alternative that reflects the grammatically correct sentence. You’ve met Oliver, but I have other brother who you haven’t met, called Lucas.
Given below is a sentence that may or may not be grammatically viable, choose the most suitable alternative that reflects the grammatically correct sentence. You’ve met Oliver, but I have other brother who 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 who 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.
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Feb 20, 2025