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Than is a grammatical particle analyzed as both a conjunction and a preposition in the English language. It introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it measures the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.
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In writing, than and then are often erroneously interchanged. In standard English, then refers to time, while than is used in comparisons.
According to the view of many English-language prescriptionists and of influential 18th-century grammarian Robert Lowth, than is exclusively a conjunction and therefore takes either nominative (or subjective) or oblique (or objective) pronouns depending on context, rather than exclusively oblique pronouns as prepositions do.[1][2] William Shakespeare's 1600 play Julius Caesar has an instance of an oblique pronoun following than where the nominative is also possible:
The instance is unusual in Shakespeare's writing, which largely is consistent with the English-language presciptionists and Robert Lowth. Samuel Johnson wrote the following:
In simple comparisons in contemporary English, than often takes an oblique pronoun, which lexicographers and usage commentators regard as prepositional use and as standard.
The case of a pronoun following than can be determined by context.
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