In contrast another is positively pervasive I think it would be fair to say that the second has eclipsed the first to the point of making the first unacceptable, even though it is a grammatical string Both an and another are members of the category of determiners, while other, on the other hand, is an adjective Another = an + other Think of it as of an article plus the word other that have historically merged into one word Grammar requires some article before other book
Either the or a. depending on the context, you get either you need to buy the other book (if, for instance, the guy bought only the first book out of the set of two) or you need to buy an_other book. No other, answers a, but my stationer. here the expression, as baker remarks, seems strictly proper, the words no other having a reference to a But if the stationer had been the only visitor, he [the person speaking to b] should say, none but, or no other than the stationer called on me this morning. this is the opinion of baker. Is there a difference if i say the recipe varies from one cook to the other or the recipe varies from one cook to another? 知乎,中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台,于 2011 年 1 月正式上线,以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解,找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。知乎凭借认真、专业、友善的社区氛围、独特的产品机制以及结构化和易获得的优质内容,聚集了中文互联网科技、商业、影视. Perhaps, though, other equivalent phrases can highlight the difference in usage if you replace except for with with the exception of and other than with apart from then we have are there any vegetables with the exception of asparagus? which is clearly wrong
This is an interesting usage note extracted from the each other page of yahoo It is often maintained that each other should be used to denote a reciprocal relation between two entities, with one another reserved for more than two Thus the twins dislike each other but the triplets dislike one another 0 both are grammatically correct You can use something or other which is a usual way of representing Another method is one thing or another.
I have searched on the internet but the explanations are in chinese, which i can't understand What is the difference between these two (pairs of) sentences One is red, another is. I wonder if some other means exactly the same as another in the following sentences Is there any difference between them There must be another explanation