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Is other a verb?
Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in
meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served
as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent
decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to
include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or
consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or
one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word
takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional
shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our
language contains many thousands of words which are reported
to have been formed in this fashion.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.
In the sentence taken from the text “Over the past few centuries,
it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun”,
the pronoun in bold letters refers to the word “other”.
Sometimes, though, “it” does not have a referent and serves a
grammatical function only, thus being named, for example,
“dummy it”. Mark the alternative in which “it” has a referent.
