Past necessities: using “have to” in the past

Resume: Have to: It's a necessity and important, but you still have an option or choice to do it or not.

Estructucture: Did you have to + verb

Responding in the negative: No he didn't Responding in the positive Yes, I had to

Expressing quantities with "hardly" and "not much"

Hardly, barely: Very little, not a lot Not much / many

Other and another

Did you know that English has two different words to express “otherness”? Let’s have a look at the differences between other and another:

Another

Another means ‘one more’ or ‘an additional or extra’, or ‘an alternative or different’. It is always used with a singular noun.

For example:

1. I would like another juice, it was really good!Here, another means ‘one more’.
2. I want to see another option before buying this bike.Here, another means ‘an alternative or different’.

Other

Other can be used with either a plural or a singular noun. The other with a singular noun means ‘the second of two things or people’, or ‘the opposite of a set of two’. Similarly, other followed by a plural noun means ‘things that are different from the ones already mentioned’.

For example:

1. This is a nice cellphone, but the other cellphone is cheaper!Here, the other cellphone means ‘the opposite of a set of two’.
2. Well, three of my friends arrived, but I don’t know where my other friends are. Maybe they got stuck in traffic.Here, my other friends means ‘my friends that are different from the ones that arrived’.

Using suffixes to turn adjectives into nouns

Suffixes are used to change a word into another noun or adjective