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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Scans at

Is this spokenly correct and written down?

The price this article scans at is always different to the price on the shelves.
  

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The price of this article as read by the scanner is always different than the price posted on the shelf.

  • The price of this article as read by the scanner is always different than the price posted on the shelf.
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The price of this article as read by the scanner is always different than the price posted on the shelf.
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Different than/from. BrE prefers one and AmE prefers the other. I forget which is which.
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Different from is BrE.
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That's weird; I'm American and different than looks odd to me.
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All right, looking now at the M-W Dict of English Usage:

"...different from is the most common and is standard in both British and American usage; different than is standard in American and British usage, especially when a clause follows than, but is more frequent in American; different to is standard in British usage but rare in American usage....all th
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Hi experts, alphecca, mister

How do you say the simple 2 sentences? Scans at verbal phrase?


This article scans at $9.99. The price posted on the shelf $8.99.

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