The string an other is vanishingly rare in English. 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 …

There's a formula: 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 …

Jun 7, 2023 · Since “each other’s” basically means “ (mutually) the other person’s”, and we wouldn’t say “the other person’s faces” (unless the other person is two-faced), it makes more …

Nov 16, 2012 · This is an interesting usage note extracted from the "each other" page of Yahoo! Education (emphasis added). It answers your question. It is often maintained that each other …

Feb 16, 2014 · 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.

"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 …

Aug 5, 2015 · Are there any other ways to say each other? For example, in this sentence: There are times when we both need each other.

The word other, in this case, is used to mean alternate. It is similar to saying "every odd week" or "every even week", only it doesn't matter what number week it is, it only matters that it's every …

Dec 21, 2016 · When is the construction other than required, or preferable to simply than? There's not much we can do than wait. This feels more correct: There's not much we can do other than …

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 …