Why in this sentence "older " is the correct word?
He married the older sister and now they have two sets of twins.
He married the elder sister and now they have two sets of twins.
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'Older' is an adjective.
'Elder' is a noun, which when compounded with another noun can look like an adjective (with the same meaning as 'older').
Both of your example sentences are grammatical.
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