What's the difference between then and than?
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- Dołączono
- 24 Lut 2019
If only you knew this back then
rather than asking now and feeling like a retard.
rather than asking now and feeling like a retard.
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- Dołączono
- 12 Kwi 2018
Goddamn you!... you're right.
- Dołączono
- 22 Paź 2020
Then usually is used in present & future tense:
“She’s at the store, then is going to come home.”
Or lists/ directions;
“Add milk, butter, then eggs.”
“Go one mile, then turn left at the stop sign.”
Than is most often used to compare before & after:
“She is much more beautiful with that new haircut than before.”
Tricksy Difference; Description of passage of time differences:
“If I knew then ( past tense) what I know know, I’d be better off than (comparison) most people at that age.”
This is most of what I can think of, off the top.
(Eta: answered as I was typing,.)
“She’s at the store, then is going to come home.”
Or lists/ directions;
“Add milk, butter, then eggs.”
“Go one mile, then turn left at the stop sign.”
Than is most often used to compare before & after:
“She is much more beautiful with that new haircut than before.”
Tricksy Difference; Description of passage of time differences:
“If I knew then ( past tense) what I know know, I’d be better off than (comparison) most people at that age.”
This is most of what I can think of, off the top.
(Eta: answered as I was typing,.)
- Dołączono
- 6 Paź 2019
Not gonna insult you personally OP, but I'm still amazed people managed to get to adulthood without this knowledge. How little did they read to get to that point?
- Dołączono
- 29 Sty 2021
A upper-class upbringing plus a faggotry need to be be fucked
- Dołączono
- 13 Gru 2014
I still see 80% of people online use the word 'loose' in place of 'lose' and it drives me bonkers
- Dołączono
- 18 Gru 2019
Perhaps English isn't OP's native language?
- Dołączono
- 6 Paź 2019
Ehh... maybe. But if you use a coloquialism like "I feel like a fucking retard asking this." which is pretty advanced, than you should have had the tools to know the difference.
- Dołączono
- 18 Sty 2019
If someone needs to ask this, then I know I've got better English reading and writing comprehension than them.
then; if and when
than; comparison
But it could be worse. You could be one of those fucking people who types "alot". I've seen those people also write "alittle", I shit you not. Do they also sometimes write "abit", "acabbage" or "adog"? I can honestly see why it would be a good idea to make it official similarly to the way we add a letter onto the words themselves when pluralizing. But since that's not how it's done, it's absolutely maddening to see.
The English language is so fucking retarded due to the lack of consistency caused by a lack of standardization for over a thousand years. Fucking anglos.
then; if and when
than; comparison
But it could be worse. You could be one of those fucking people who types "alot". I've seen those people also write "alittle", I shit you not. Do they also sometimes write "abit", "acabbage" or "adog"? I can honestly see why it would be a good idea to make it official similarly to the way we add a letter onto the words themselves when pluralizing. But since that's not how it's done, it's absolutely maddening to see.
The English language is so fucking retarded due to the lack of consistency caused by a lack of standardization for over a thousand years. Fucking anglos.
- Dołączono
- 12 Kwi 2018
It actually is, it's just that I sometimes fuck up then and than. Kinda rarely though.
- Dołączono
- 7 Kwi 2019
The letters A and E.