How would one use an “elder brother” with a “brother”?
I just watched a film called Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.
I wonder how one knows whether he is an elder brother or a younger brother when he only mentions that he has a brother and does not specify? Does brother mean elder? Why or why not?
I saw in the film: The girl knows that when a boy tells him he has a brother, he is older than him.
I suspect that is because the boy is so old.
What might be the most important difference between brother and teenager, although on film the word brother doesn’t exist. So when can I simply remove the word brother or not? If the girl did immediately know the brother was older, she must have been able to infer it from context or have some a priori knowledge.
Usually when you need to specify the relative age of a sibling, you’ll use something like:
My older brother
You’ll also often see a “size” adjective substituted for a strict age comparative, mostly among children(where there’s a stronger correlation between size and age than in adults): My
big sister or
my younger brother
