<p>When you compare things, you use "any other" instead of "any"
"His math skills were better than any other..". Why is that?</p>
<p>and yeah, one more question.</p>
<p>The number of awards given this year to biochemists accentuate the significant gains being made in in the study of the chemistry of living organisms. No error</p>
<p>I think "accentuate" should be "accentuates" because "number" is a singular subject.</p>
<p>To answer the first post, "any" would include himself, which wouldn't make sense because one cannot be better than oneself.</p>
<p>there's an argument prob, i guess</p>