than
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In , it represents , which was a alternative of , acceptation . It is accordingly with German (than) and dann (then); in Danish the aforementioned chat serves for both then and than. It represents the old or of the pronoun .
than
# a grammatical atom and in the English language. It introduces a comparison, and as such is associated with s, and with words such as , , and . Typically, it seeks to admeasurement the force of an or agnate description amid two s.
Prescription (linguistics) accept a amount of rules apropos than. In academic grammar, than is not a preposition to administer the (although it has been acclimated as such by writers such as William Shakespeare, whose 1600 play Julius Absolutist (play) contains the band A man no mightier than thyself or me. . ., and Samuel Johnson, who wrote No man had anytime added accuracy than him, in award out the ridiculous.). Than functions as both affiliation and preposition; if it is acclimated as a conjunction, it governs the , and if a preposition, the . To actuate the of a pronoun afterward than, a biographer can attending to adumbrated words and actuate how they would chronicle to the pronoun.
Examples :
It haveto be acclaimed that some prescriptionists assert that haveto chase than (not ); although according to the aloft rule, who would be the actual form. Critics of this generally adduce this binding barring as affirmation that the prescriptionist aphorism is logically erroneous, in accession to it getting inconsistent with absolute usage.
In , it represents , which was a alternative of , acceptation . It is accordingly with German (than) and dann (then); in Danish the aforementioned chat serves for both then and than. It represents the old or of the pronoun .
than
# a grammatical atom and in the English language. It introduces a comparison, and as such is associated with s, and with words such as , , and . Typically, it seeks to admeasurement the force of an or agnate description amid two s.
Prescription (linguistics) accept a amount of rules apropos than. In academic grammar, than is not a preposition to administer the (although it has been acclimated as such by writers such as William Shakespeare, whose 1600 play Julius Absolutist (play) contains the band A man no mightier than thyself or me. . ., and Samuel Johnson, who wrote No man had anytime added accuracy than him, in award out the ridiculous.). Than functions as both affiliation and preposition; if it is acclimated as a conjunction, it governs the , and if a preposition, the . To actuate the of a pronoun afterward than, a biographer can attending to adumbrated words and actuate how they would chronicle to the pronoun.
Examples :
It haveto be acclaimed that some prescriptionists assert that haveto chase than (not ); although according to the aloft rule, who would be the actual form. Critics of this generally adduce this binding barring as affirmation that the prescriptionist aphorism is logically erroneous, in accession to it getting inconsistent with absolute usage.
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