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Davec Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

THEN & THAN in the same sentance

0Does the bolded paragraph below look proper? I'm especially curious of the last sentance in that paragraph because it uses both 01u00than02u00 and 01u00then02u00. I don't think that I've ever seen that before!02br
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00FYI, the text is about all of the time that I spent designing a computer system:02br
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00I spent weeks looking at benchmarks, reading forum posts, comparing computer parts, and finally came up with a winner. The last three weeks have been some of the most intense.02br
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01b00I'm not going to say that my time was well spent. Instead of spending all of those hours staring at a computer screen, instead I could've been working a second job at $10/hour. If that's the case, then I lost more money than what the computer is worth!02b02br
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00But I did earn something, I eventually earned a P.H.D. in computer system design.02br
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00Thanks for all of your advise!02br
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0It's perfectly fine to have "then" and "than" in the same sentence. 0-

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0It's perfectly fine to have "then" and "than" in the same sentence. However, you need to deleted the second instance of "instead" in your middle paragraph.02br
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00Also, I'm more accustomed to see it as Ph.D.0-
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0Thanks! 02br
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00Thanks for the correction on instead also. I really appreciate it.0-
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