[the others] or [others]
I have made up the sentence below.
(1) Next week, I will stay in John's house two days, Bill's one day and Jack's others.
My non-native English speaking friends revised it to make (2) below.
(2) Next week, I will stay in John's house two days, Bill's one day, Jack's the others.
They think the sentence sounds better with the definite article used for "others".
Who is correct? Thank you very much for your help.
Top answer
We usually sat ' at John's house, not ' in' . And we often abbreviate 'at John's house ' to ' at John's'. (1) Next week, I will stay at John's house two days, Bill's one day and Jack's the other four days.
- We usually sat ' at John's house, not ' in' .
- And we often abbreviate 'at John's house ' to ' at John's'.
- (1) Next week, I will stay at John's house two days, Bill's one day and Jack's the other four days.
- My non-native English speaking friends revised it to make (2) below.
- (2) Next week, I will stay at John's house two days, Bill's one day, Jack's the others.
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We usually sat 'at John's house, not 'in'.
And we often abbreviate 'at John's house' to 'at John's'.
(1) Next week, I will stay at John's house two days, Bill's one day and Jack's the other four days.
My non-native English speaking friends revised it to make (2) below.
(2) Next week, I will stay at John's house two days, Bill's o
0I think I'd change that around a bit.
Next week I'm spending two days at John's, one day at Bill's, and the rest of the week at Jack's.
CJ
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