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Doomonkey:


--- Quote from: Wynd_Fox on September 18, 2009, 08:35:51 PM ---You can affect something. However it is an effect of the recent earthquake that the building fell down.

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The same with then and than. E makes is a noun. A makes it the other thing.

TheChaosCarrier:

I agree with you Regulith 100%.
It makes me cringe that people always get that contraction wrong.

Kalphiter:

That's because I pointed out "your gay/your under arrest" in the "Fill this in" thread.

Bisjac:

just say yer
it applies to them all. and you can sound like a dimwitted rapper or something.

Wynd_Fox:


--- Quote from: doomonkey on September 18, 2009, 09:04:38 PM ---The same with then and than. E makes is a noun. A makes it the other thing.

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Good try, but I think a better explanation would be "Then is used to show a passage of time. I.e. 'I ate a taco, then danced with a monkey.'" "Than is used to compare two things. I.e. 'Dancing with the monkey was more fulfilling than eating the taco'".

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