🔥 EXPLAINED! The Difference Between ANOTHER, OTHER, THE OTHER and OTHERS | English Grammar — Transcript

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1. 0:00oh my word this is easily the worst
2. 0:03grammar i have ever seen
3. 0:06on a t-shirt
4. 0:08here it is little green hot peppers from
5. 0:10padrain ones are spicy another stones
6. 0:14hmm
7. 0:17no
8. 0:19[Music]
9. 0:20now forgive my pronunciation but i would
10. 0:23like to thank ciaray pepper and natalia
11. 0:26for suggesting the topic of this video
12. 0:29and it's a question i get all the time
13. 0:32what's the difference between another
14. 0:34and other what's the difference between
15. 0:36other and others what's the difference
16. 0:39between another and the other so stop
17. 0:43worrying in this video i'm going to
18. 0:45explain it all
19. 0:50so let's start with when to use another
20. 0:53or the other and
21. 0:55to help explain this i think it's useful
22. 0:58if we just delete the word other
23. 1:02for a minute and just focus on when we
24. 1:04use
25. 1:11this morning i was making orange juice
26. 1:14when an orange fell on the floor we used
27. 1:17an orange and not
28. 1:19the
29. 1:20orange because it's not important which
30. 1:25orange fell on the floor i have five
31. 1:28oranges on the table and
32. 1:31an orange fell on the floor we're not
33. 1:33interested it's not important and it's
34. 1:35not relevant
35. 1:37which orange fell on the floor
36. 1:40and if it's not relevant which one and
37. 1:43we're not being specific
38. 1:45we use uh
39. 1:47or an if i want to be specific and
40. 1:51specify that the orange that fell on the
41. 1:54floor was the bad one
42. 1:56then i could say i was making orange
43. 1:59juice and the bad orange fell on the
44. 2:03floor you see i'm being specific i'm
45. 2:06specifying which orange it was it was
46. 2:09the green one
47. 2:11and if we're being specific then we use
48. 2:15the
49. 2:16now let's add the word other and we have
50. 2:19another one word another
51. 2:22or the other
52. 2:24and the same rule applies if we're not
53. 2:27being specific we use another
54. 2:31but if we're being specific we use the
55. 2:35other
56. 2:38now we use both another and other to
57. 2:42talk about
58. 2:43non-specific things and this is probably
59. 2:46the biggest mistake that students make
60. 2:49with all these words and you can find
61. 2:52more of these very very common mistakes
62. 2:55in my free book english quick fix which
63. 2:59you can download by clicking up there or
64. 3:02in the description
65. 3:04so to explain this have a look at these
66. 3:06examples
67. 3:08can you pass me another orange please
68. 3:11can you pass me two other oranges please
69. 3:14have you got any other advice
70. 3:17so in the first example can you pass me
71. 3:19another orange
72. 3:21orange is singular and we use another so
73. 3:25the rule is that we use another when
74. 3:27it's followed by a singular countable
75. 3:30noun
76. 3:31the second example we said can you pass
77. 3:33me two other oranges so we use other
78. 3:37when we're talking about a plural like
79. 3:40oranges
80. 3:42and in the third example have you got
81. 3:44any other advice advice is an
82. 3:47uncountable noun it's not possible to
83. 3:49say one advice to advices
84. 3:53it's uncountable
85. 3:54and with uncountable nouns we use
86. 3:58other
87. 3:59okay quick summary so far
88. 4:02another we use it for a singular thing
89. 4:06and a non-specific thing
90. 4:08i need another phone
91. 4:10the other we use it for a singular thing
92. 4:13and a specific thing oh somebody's in
93. 4:16that bathroom you have to use the other
94. 4:18one
95. 4:19and other we use for a non-specific
96. 4:23plural or uncountable noun some people
97. 4:27drink tea
98. 4:28other people drink coffee
99. 4:30if you have any other information that'd
100. 4:33be great
101. 4:37the word others
102. 4:39is basically a short version of other
103. 4:43plus a plural noun
104. 4:46for example
105. 4:47my best friends live all over the world
106. 4:51some live in europe others live in
107. 4:54america one lives in australia here
108. 4:58others means other friends i've got a
109. 5:01big bag of oranges
110. 5:03some are good others are bad here others
111. 5:06means other oranges
112. 5:11now before i explain the t-shirt when do
113. 5:14we use anothers in english can you write
114. 5:17one sentence using another's
115. 5:20the answer is
116. 5:21no you can't because another's is not a
117. 5:26word
118. 5:26it doesn't exist
119. 5:28if you use the word another's in english
120. 5:31it's always always going to be wrong
121. 5:35okay
122. 5:36let's have a look at the t-shirt
123. 5:40so when i talked about my friends i said
124. 5:42that some live in europe others live in
125. 5:45america and one lives in australia i
126. 5:49could also say that the ones that live
127. 5:52in america are mostly americans
128. 5:55i see the ones that live in europe more
129. 5:59frequently than the ones that live in
130. 6:02america that's okay
131. 6:04but here i'm using the ones
132. 6:07it's not possible to say
133. 6:10ones
134. 6:11to refer to a group of things the plural
135. 6:15of one is some
136. 6:17so ones are spicy
137. 6:20some are spicy as we've just seen the
138. 6:24word anothers does not exist in english
139. 6:27and as we saw earlier when we're talking
140. 6:29about other plural noun things
141. 6:32we use others
142. 6:35some are spicy
143. 6:37others
144. 6:38don't
145. 6:40it's still bad
146. 6:42i mean we could say some burn your mouth
147. 6:45others don't some taste great
148. 6:48others don't because there we're using
149. 6:51normal verbs like burn and taste but if
150. 6:55we're using a verb like to be or can
151. 6:59then it needs to match in both parts of
152. 7:02the sentence
153. 7:03so
154. 7:04it has to be
155. 7:06some are spicy
156. 7:09others
157. 7:10aren't
158. 7:11now do you remember in my earlier
159. 7:13example when i said i was making orange
160. 7:16juice and an orange fell on the floor
161. 7:20well now would be a great moment to
162. 7:22watch that video because there i explain
163. 7:26why we use the past continuous for i was
164. 7:30making
165. 7:31and why we used the past simple for
166. 7:34an orange fell
167. 7:36thanks for watching this video like and
168. 7:38subscribe and bloody bloody blah and
169. 7:40i'll see you in that video next
170. 7:43bye for now
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