Choose the most suitable determiner for the given sentence. What_____ books by…
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Choose the most suitable determiner for the given sentence.
What_____ books by Charles Dickens have you read, apart from ‘Oliver Twist’?
- A.
another
- B.
other
- C.
many
- D.
few
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Correct answer: B
Correct answer: other
Why this is correct: Use 'other' with plural nouns and with uncountable nouns to mean additional or different items.
Rule: Use 'another' with singular countable nouns (example: another book).
Rule: Use 'other' with plural countable nouns and uncountable nouns (examples: other books; other information).
Note: If you use 'other' before a singular countable noun you usually need another determiner: the other color / the other one.
Why the other choices are incorrect:
'many' is a quantifier meaning 'a large number of' and does not complete the question appropriately. To ask about quantity, you would say 'How many books...?'
'few' means 'not many' and would change the meaning; 'What few books...' is unnatural here and not the intended sense of asking which additional or different books someone has read.
'another' is singular only (example: another book) and therefore cannot correctly fill the blank when the noun is plural ('books').
Correct sentence: What other books by Charles Dickens have you read, apart from 'Oliver Twist'?
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