The first sentence says you prefer (right now at least) eating to sleeping. Delivered to your inbox!People get tripped up on them all the time. Correct Direct costs amounts to lower than one percent of the $541 billion.įollowed by, “You have the nerve - the audacity - to suggest that Jesus Christ, Lord of all, healer of the sick, is lower than the angels? Like maybe the one in our first sentence. Preposterous!” But "lower than" and "higher than" are also acceptable.
Trump removes university rule And it's the word that follows other, rather, less, and more. Incorrect Could someone explain as to what really is the rule to choose between lower than and less than. Than is the word to choose in phrases like smaller than, smoother than, and further than. The number of flies is lower than the number of birds. Psalm 8:5 and Hebrews 2:7 say something interesting: God made Jesus “a little lower than the angels.” “Excuse me?” Is what most people ask the first time they read those verses. The widely adopted form of two equal-length strokes connecting in an acute angle at the left, <, has been found in documents dated as far back as the 1560s. So, the second sentence isn’t necessarily wrong in all meanings, it’s just wrong when your intended meaning is a comparison, not an ordered list of events.The traditional rule, therefore, requires the sentence It’s probably best to hold to this traditional rule if you are writing an academic paper for school or a book for publishing, but understand that it can lead to some cumbersome, outdated sounding language.These two words are very close in their appearance, but than vs. John Lewis goes home Find descriptive alternatives for lower than. English has a lot of confusing words, especially those words that look alike and sound alike.
In Middle English, they were the same word both spellings were used for all the various meanings. Linguistically speaking, they're identical twins.
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