Difference between Older and Elder

The other format is OLD ELDER ELDEST.

But we can only use elder and eldest when we’re referring to immediate family.

For example:

📌 My elder brother is a doctor.

📌 My eldest sister is a nurse.

So here we’re talking about immediate family members, brothers and sisters so we can use old elder and eldest.

Of course, we can use old older and oldest. But when we’re talking about immediate family, we can only use elder and eldest.

Okay.

So another rule that I would like to bring to your attention is that

when we’re using elder we can only use it when it’s followed by a noun.

📌 My elder sister.

📌 My eldest brother.

But if I say My brother is older than me –  that is correct

but I can’t say My brother is elder than me because in this situation elder is not followed immediately by a noun.

Okay.  So there are the rules concerning the adjectives old, older, oldest or old, elder and eldest.

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