SEDUC MT 2025 — Questão 42 · Pronomes | Pronouns
Pronomes | Pronouns
SEDUC MT · Inglês
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Is other a verb?
Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.
Forms of other can be used as either adjectives or pronouns — besides the more recent verb form. They include others, the other, the others, another. Indicate the correct use of one of these forms:
Alternativas
- A
One of the students is from Portugal; anothers are from Spain and Italy.
- B
In my opinion, the English language is easier to learn than others.
- C
Another day she told me she'd like to learn how to drive.
- D
Some people need 8 hours of sleep, but the others don't.
- E
I lost my passport and had to apply for the other.
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