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Sun 94 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Other than

What verb form should be follwed after other than?

He doesn't help me other than wasing( or to wash) the dishes. ?
  

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sun 94 What verb form should be follwed after other than? The full infinitive is usual. The gerund is also commonly used.

— CalifJim

  • sun 94 What verb form should be follwed after other than?
  • The full infinitive is usual.
  • The gerund is also commonly used.
  • The bare infinitive, which is more casual, is also sometimes used.
  • other than to wash the dishes other than washing the dishes other than wash the dishes CJ
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sun 94What verb form should be follwed after other than?
The full infinitive is usual. The gerund is also commonly used. The bare infinitive, which is more casual, is also sometimes used.

other than to wash the dishes
other than washing the dishes
other than wash the dishes

CJ
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Most dictionaries consider 'other than' a phrasal preposition, which would be followed therefore by a noun: other than washing/to wash the dishes. (This makes 'washing' a gerund and 'to wash' an infinitive used as a noun.)
Some dictionaries consider 'other than' adverbial and therefore follow it with a definite preposition: 'other than by washing the dishes'.
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I've stumbled across this thread as I was wondering about the following questions. Is other followed by than since it is not a comparative. Would you correct the questions for me? It seems there might be two possibilities but what do you think?

They were killed for no other reason than that their views were different than others.
They were killed for no reason other than that their vi
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Hello, May someone please correct the above post?
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Your sentences are all OK.
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Hi
Could I gets Califjims opinion? What the difference is?
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