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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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the other and another in this sentence make me confused

Today there are libraries in almost every town in the world. Even in areas where there are no libraries, there are often mobile libraries which take books from one village to _____.
A. others (B). the other C. other D. another
* Can someone help me? Is option B correct?
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(D) one village to another Anonymous Is option B correct? " The problem is that it technically limits you to two choices: the one, and the other. The context makes it fairly clear that we're talking about a mobile library typically serving many villages, not just two.

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  • (D) one village to another Anonymous Is option B correct?
  • " The problem is that it technically limits you to two choices: the one, and the other.
  • The context makes it fairly clear that we're talking about a mobile library typically serving many villages, not just two.
  • "One village to another " allows this interpretation.
  • "One village to the other" does not.
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(D) one village to another
AnonymousIs option B correct?
Technically, no; but native speakers often use it, in the manner of an idiom "one to the other."
The problem is that it technically limits you to two choices: the one, and the other.

The context makes it fairly clear that we're talking about a mobile library typically serving
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