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Than is a conjunction used for comparisons. Here are some examples.

"Her hair is darker than mine."

"His paintings are more captivating than my photographs."

It can also be a conjunction meaning when.

"No sooner had he arrived than the guests started to cluster around him."

"She had scarcely started to prepare dinner than the telephone rang."

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11y ago

My grades this year are better than last year.

I'll pick you up at one, and then we'll go to lunch.

My grades then were much better than my grades are now.

The turbine then began to spin faster than he'd expected.



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15y ago

(used, as after comparative adjectives and adverbs, to introduce the second member of an unequal comparison) She's shorter than I am.

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12y ago

No. It wouldn't make sense. You need a noun." Than" what?

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10y ago

Than is a linking word comparing two things. It is darker in here than it is outside.

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9y ago

He realised then that it was better to save some money than spend it all.

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