{"id":147,"date":"2014-04-04T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T01:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2017-03-04T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:37:21","slug":"the-difference-between-then-and-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-then-and-than\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between then and than"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>TLDR:<\/strong> <em>Then<\/em> means &#8216;at that time&#8217; or &#8216;after&#8217;, but <em>than<\/em> is used in comparisons.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Believe it or not, these two words originally were just <em>then<\/em> way back when, so you can be partially forgiven for getting them mixed up&#8230; but only if you&#8217;re a time traveller. If you <em>are<\/em>, I have a few questions for you!<\/p>\n<p>then (adverb)\u2014at that time; after that; therefore<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>It was then that I realised I had made a terrible mistake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>John remembered shaking hands with the then Principal Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Sally finished folding all the jeans, then made a start on the shirts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>&#8216;If you had taken the side road like I had suggested, then you would have bypassed all this traffic!&#8217;<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>than (preposition, conjunction)\u2014used to separate a comparison, contrast or exception<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Bob was taller than his younger brothers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Chris had more knowledge than I did about the event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Tony decided to sit tight <strong>rather than<\/strong> try anything heroic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>&#8216;I want that essay on my desk no later than Thursday, Perkins!&#8217; the professor called.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More often than not, it&#8217;s <em>then<\/em> that has mistakenly replaced <em>than,<\/em> so watch out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there is one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}