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Proper use of old brother and young brother compared to older . . . But what about "old brother" and "young brother"? I recently read some translated Chinese web-novels that use "old brother" and "young brother" to refer to non-blood related persons So I started wondering, could "old brother" and "young brother" also be applied to blood-related persons in actual English?
meaning - Can the eldest sibling of three males call his younger . . . I think saying "the older of my brothers" would imply the middle brother in a family of exactly three; "the oldest of my brothers" would imply the second-oldest in a family of at least three, and probably at least four, brothers
What is the difference between younger and youngest? Now the eldest brother has two younger brothers and two younger sisters, but only one youngest brother, who is still not the youngest sibling That title belongs to the baby girl
Younger or youngest - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The two children are members of a group and the comparative or superlative relates to that group Expressions like the ten best universities or the cleverer children in the class are quite common and I don't think require further explanation As for her two younger children, both forms are grammatically acceptable but I prefer her two youngest children because it is clear that the superlative
word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I have a problem with this sentence: He was one of the youngest of his siblings The meaning should be clear: he had many brothers and sisters, and he was one of the youngest of the lot, but the
Using commas around names that specify relationship You know how many brothers you have, but your readers (most of them, anyway) do not If you write my brother Sam, they will assume that you have other brothers besides Sam, and if you write my brother, Sam, they will assume that you have one brother whose name is Sam, simply because that is the way appositives are presented in written English
poetry - Meaning of if still free in Byrons Don Juan - English . . . But then they only seem so many brothers From this earlier excerpt, we see that Byron (as he has been doing for a number of stanzas at this point) is tracing the thoughts of Julia, a young woman who is trying to convince herself that it is the part of virtue not to run from temptation but rather to confront and master it
articles - Which one is correct: He is the taller of the two or He . . . Without a preposition phrase, either works: He is the taller He is taller If you add a PP specifying the range, you need an article: *He is taller of the two, but He is the taller of the two The article is the same one used in the superlative, and for the same reason: uniqueness This entails that the range is limited to two