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‘Go and play with some other children, ‘ she said.
When used before a noun,
other
never has an
s
: ‘Do you have any other shoes besides the brown
ones?’
Compare: ‘Besides the brown shoes, do you have any others?’
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It tells us all about nouns , verbs, adjectives and others.
It tells us all about such things as nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Do not use
and others
at the end of a list of examples. In some styles it is possible to use
etc
for
this purpose, but in formal styles it is safer to use
such as
(or
such ... as
): ‘Candidates’
performance in the test was influenced by factors such as age, sex, attitude and first language.’
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