This is not question about language but rather a question about sets to me When you are talking about the youngest or the oldest, that should be only one of that kind. His sister is his youngest sibling, but his younger sister Since she is the lone female child, there is no need for the superlative form Suppose, however, that there are more siblings, and their birth order goes like this Boy, girl, boy, boy, girl.
A friend of mine has a big family She is a chinese girl, and has five sisters, who are all younger than she She wants to know how to introduce her five sisters To make it easy to understand, i. If you are not the youngest, you could indicate total number and how many are older than you by saying something like, i'm the third of seven siblings Or if you don't wish to mention age, you can say, i'm one of seven siblings.
My youngest brother works in the back while my elder, younger brother takes orders at the counter. the older of my brothers. comes across as a grammatically awkward statement It doesn't sound right when i attempt to annunciate it I could be wrong, since i don't have a phd and am just an esl teacher, but it doesn't sound smooth. Indeed, both eldest and oldest refer to the greatest in age The crucial difference, however, lies in the fact that eldest can only be used for related persons, while oldest can be used for any person, place or thing in a group of related or unrelated elements He is the eldest/oldest of the three children
Mine is the eldest /oldest car on the block John is the eldest (less common. If there are three children in the family A boy, youngest is it correct for their father to refer to a as 'my eldest son' and to b as 'my younger daughter' The again means at another time or once more as in, for example I shall not look upon his like again — shakespeare today is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again
For example, you have not heard anyone quote, you'll never be younger. What's the youngest age when it's no longer weird to call a girl that?
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