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230 one: substitute word

We often use one instead of repeating a noun.
I'm looking for a flat. I'd like one with a garden.
(=... aflat with a garden.)
‘Can you lend me a pen?’ ‘Sorry, | haven't got one.’
‘Which is your child?’ ‘The one in the blue coat.’

We only use a/an before one if there is an adjective. Compare:
I'd like a big one with cream on.
I'd like one with cream on. (NOT ... @ene...)

There is a plural ones, used after the or an adjective.
‘Which shoes do you want?’ ‘The ones at the front of the window.’
How much are the red ones?
Compare:
I've got five green ones.
I've got five. (NOT ... five-ones.)

We only use one for countable nouns. Compare:
If you haven't got a fresh chicken I'll take a frozen one.
if you haven't got fresh milk I'll take tinned. (NOT ... tifnectene-)

231 other and others

When other is an adjective, it has no plural.
Where are the other photos? (NOT ... the-ethers-phetes?)
Have you got any other colours?
When other is used alone, without a noun, it can have a plural.
Some grammars are easier to understand than others.
I'll be late. Can you tell the others?
For another, see 33.

232 ought

Forms
Ought is a ‘modal auxiliary verb’ (see 202). The third person singular has
no -s.
She ought to understand.
We usually make questions and negatives without do.
Ought we to go now? (NOT Bo-we-ought ... 7)
lt oughtn’t to rain today .