In my opinion, just because "an other" is "vanishingly rare", that doesn't make its usage "unacceptable". In my situation, which is advising (via a letter) a candidate for an employment position who has not been chosen, it doesn't seem appropriate for me to tell him that "another" candidate has been selected, but it does seem appropriate for me to tell him that "an other" …

2.other/others. other只能作限定词，其后面必须接名词，不能单独使用；相反地，others只能作代词，后面不能接名词，只能单独使用。例子可以看第三点。 3.other/the other、others/the others. 第一点提到了“other+名词”表示不确定的“另外的”，“其余的”。

Other than that it is vanishingly rare to see & in formal written English, although of course in informal email, text messages, notes, and handwriting, anything goes. Share Improve this answer

2012年6月13日 · other. Firstly, this is the term most commonly used. Also, the reason seems to be that the word 'other' here is not a noun but an adjective: it does not refer to 'the other' but the set of 'other options'. As other is not a noun here, it cannot be pluralized.

2017年12月19日 · Other than those few mistakes, your homework is perfect. One other thing I want to mention is that you look lovely today. "The other" is "other" with a definite article (the). This indicates the number of other things is known or specified. My team didn't win. The other team won. (There were only 2 teams that could have won and the other team did.)

Some of the beads are missing. Some of the water is gone. On the other hand, there is one indefinite pronoun, none, that can be either singular or plural; it often doesn't matter whether you use a singular or a plural verb — unless something else in the sentence determines its number.

2017年4月13日 · May also include slapping, punching or other physical expressions of distress. There is a certain theory about 5 stages of grief formulated by Kubler-Ross-- the Bereavement Theory as well. It may not answer your question but it entails that every human being has the same bereavement process.

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2017年7月23日 · Other words like "ignorant" don't work well because well, I don't like that word because it's misunderstood (even though it works well for how I say retarded . . for me it's like if you don't know something you should know).

2014年3月22日 · Now it is possible to think that there are just two directions - e.g. left or right. So using that rationale it would be "one or the other". However if you postulate many directions e.g. north, south, east, west, north-west, south-east etc then it woul be "one or another (an other)" –