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Hi, there

Whenever you are going to report a video on youtube(can I say “whenever you are going to”????) , you are given the following options: “Infringes my rights”: “Infringes my privacy” “Infringe my copyright” “Other legal claim”

My question is: if “claim” is countable, why not “ANOTHER legal claim” or “Other legal claims”?
Can you use “other” with countable singular nouns?

Thank you

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Other
Hi, there

Whenever you are going to report a video on youtube(can I say “whenever you are going to”????) , you are given the following options: “Infringes my rights”: “Infringes my privacy” “Infringe my copyright” “Other legal claim”

My question is: if “claim” is countable, why not “ANOTHER legal claim” or “Other legal claims”?
Can you use “other” with countable singular nouns?

Thank you

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Claim is countable. However the list is formed of single entities.

I.e infringes my copyright, instead of copyrightS.

Another legal claim relies on there having been one already. I.e one and then another (a following legal claim)

Other legal claims is a valid sentence though, yes.

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Yes you can say whenever you’re going to report. However, it can be simplified to “when you report”. Other is used here because it is saying that the claim type is not listed. It presents you with another option. The definition of other is “ used to refer to a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about“ so therefore you aren’t reporting an additional claim, but one that is not mentioned.

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