Remaining, Remainder, and Rest of - January 08, 2025

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1. 0:00This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Anne.
2. 0:08Here is part of Anne's question.
3. 0:30the remaining countries by the remain or the rest?
4. 0:37Thank you, Anne.
5. 0:41I'm happy to answer this question, Anne.
6. 0:44English has many words that share the same meaning or that are close in meaning.
7. 0:53So you might wonder why we usually use one word instead of another
8. 1:00that is very similar to it.
9. 1:03We often use one word instead of another because of grammar.
10. 1:09Let's look at how this works by considering the last part of your question.
11. 1:16You asked, Can I replace the remaining countries by the remain or the rest?
12. 1:25The answer is no.
13. 1:28That's because the word remain is a verb, and the term the rest is a quantifier.
14. 1:38To describe the word countries, we need to use an adjective.
15. 1:45The ing ending on the word remaining makes it an adjective when
16. 1:52we place it before a noun.
17. 1:56If you want to use the words the rest to describe a noun, you need to use four words.
18. 2:05These four words are the rest of the.
19. 2:10These four words mean the same thing as the two words the remaining.
20. 2:16The following example shows this.
21. 2:21The rest of the countries use more land for farming.
22. 2:26Now let's look at the first part of your question.
23. 2:31I don't really understand the difference between remaining,
24. 2:37remainder, and rest when using these words to describe what is left of something.
25. 2:45The word remainder is a noun,
26. 2:48but when we use it to describe what is left of something, we change it to a quantifier.
27. 2:57To do this, we usually say or write the four words, the remainder of the.
28. 3:05In this way, it works the same way as the quantifier, the rest of the.
29. 3:12However, we use the quantifier, the rest of the,
30. 3:18much more often, especially in spoken English, than the remainder of the.
31. 3:26Also, you should know that as a noun, the remainder is a term used in mathematics.
32. 3:34It can mean the decimal fraction that remains
33. 3:40when one number is divided by another number that is not one of its factors.
34. 3:48For example, six-tenths,
35. 3:51or .6, is the remainder when 33 is divided by 5.
36. 3:59It can also be what is left over from the process of subtraction.
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