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Price or prize? Principal or principle? Quiet or quite? Raise or rise? Remember or remind? Right or rightly? Rob or steal? Say or tell? So that or in order that? Sometimes or sometime? Sound or noise? Speak or talk? Such or so? Towards or toward? Wait or wait for? Wake , wake up or awaken? Worth or worthwhile? Noun phrases: dependent words Noun phrases: order Noun phrases: uses Noun phrases: noun phrases and verbs Noun phrases: two noun phrases together.

Pronouns: possessive my , mine , your , yours , etc. Pronouns: reflexive myself , themselves , etc. Pronouns: indefinite - body , - one , - thing , - where Pronouns: one , you , we , they Relative pronouns Questions: interrogative pronouns what , who Someone , somebody , something , somewhere That. Dates Measurements Number Time.

Geographical places Names and titles: addressing people Nationalities, languages, countries and regions Place names. Reported speech Reported speech: direct speech Reported speech: indirect speech.

British and American English Dialect Double negatives and usage Formal and informal language Newspaper headlines Register Slang Standard and non-standard language Swearing and taboo expressions.

Past simple I worked Past continuous I was working Past continuous or past simple? Past simple or present perfect? Used to Past perfect simple I had worked Past perfect continuous I had been working Past perfect simple or past perfect continuous? Past perfect simple or past simple? Past verb forms referring to the present Past: typical errors. Present continuous I am working Present perfect continuous I have been working Present perfect simple I have worked Present perfect simple or present perfect continuous?

Present perfect: typical errors Present simple I work Present simple or present continuous? Present: typical errors Present verb forms referring to the past. Finite and non-finite verbs Imperative clauses Be quiet! Infinitives with and without to Infinitive: active or passive? Perfect infinitive with to to have worked Verbs: basic forms Verbs: formation. Hate , like , love and prefer Hear , see , etc.

Get passive Have something done Passive: forms Passives with and without an agent Passive: uses Passive: other forms Passive: typical errors. Conditionals Conditionals: if Conditionals: other expressions unless, should, as long as Conditionals: typical errors If only In case of Suppose , supposing and what if Wish.

Word classes and phrase classes Word formation Prefixes Suffixes Compounds Abbreviations, initials and acronyms -ish and -y Diminutives - let , - y and mini- Hyphens. Word order and focus Word order: structures Cleft sentences It was in June we got married. Fronting Inversion No sooner Not only … but also. Relative clauses Relative clauses referring to a whole sentence Relative clauses: defining and non-defining Relative clauses: typical errors.

Neither, neither … nor and not … either Not. Questions: alternative questions Is it black or grey? Questions: two-step questions Questions: typical errors Questions: wh- questions Questions: yes-no questions Are you feeling cold? Then is also used to indicate what happens or happened next, or what should be done next, as in the following sentences: First I went to the store, and then I got gas. Finish your homework, and then you can watch TV.

Turn right at the next street, then turn left at the light. Than is used to make comparisons as in the following sentences: I like cake better than pie. You and I are both taller than Gary. She would rather stay in than go out. We had eaten more than our share of the cookies. Just remember, then is used for time, and than is used for comparison. I hope this helps. Vocabulary Quiz. After too much heated discussion, I agreed to give a less than specific tip saying I didn't believe the child was abducted.

We were on it, so to speak, less than two hours after the baby was taken. Quinn worked on increasing the precision of time and location but it remained about the same; anything longer than a couple of days was a problem. It was so heart wrenching to Martha she insisted Howie try more than once, in an effort to succeed.

Finding the most effective sources remained less than satisfactory. This is so much higher than my grade level I'm getting a nose bleed. I knew what I was about to say was far more than I wanted to offer. I owe you more than you could ever know. What could possibly be more important to us than saving lives? I have more money than anyone deserves.

My point is, lacking knowledge is sometimes safer than possessing it. Four and a half acres contained a barn larger than the LeBlanc's Peabody home, beautiful gardens and plush lawn. In less than a month in early spring our lives were totally changed and we loved it. A comfortable bed replaced the cot utilized in Peabody and absolute darkness proved more conducive to sleep than the leaked light that often snuck into our old quarters.

We considered the session might take much longer than usual. We'd learned to accommodate one another's quirks with no more than a raised eyebrow. I was less critical than my wife on the slow workings of the law.

I'd rather have entertained my house guest than listened to his sniveling and begging but alas, I do what I have to do. It was now more than seventy-two hours after the kidnapping. The downside of setting up identities was that someone would learn more detail about us than we'd previously released. It was the last time we heard from Daniel Brennan for more than a week. She was taller than Howie but rail thin and possessed an engaging smile, long blond hair and arresting blue eyes.

You brought our man closer to being identified than anyone else so you should kiss off any guilty feelings. I really don't know any more than the man on the street. I ignored her question rather than lie. This ought to help the credibility issue; there's more to some tips than the police know, but haven't made public because it would enforce credence in a psychic connection for the tip.

Martha, free to indulge, surprised me by drinking more than her share, an uncommon practice on her part. We're working on her self-confidence but it's still better than her mother's. Molly appeared less shy around Howie than us, acting more casual toward him as if he was a member of her family. I realize now my venture was doomed to failure from the start as my target was far better protected than I sensed.

She opens up for him; more than any other stranger. She was seriously disturbed at keeping secretes from Howie; perhaps more so than he was, doing the same thing. Now that Molly had confessed more knowledge than any of us suspected, I felt obligated to tell Martha the full story before she learned it from overheard conversation or from Molly directly. It's not a solution but it will help a lot more than doing nothing while this guy may be getting closer. I know the clerk down at Starbuck's more than I know my own mother.

It sounded more like a demand than a request. Surely such sleuthing and cleverness deserves more reward than hiding in the bushes and watching the dogs of law ineptly do their duty. The two were closer than they should have been. She was far better than I at handling this type of emotion but just then, Molly skipped in the door.

There are four bedrooms, two more than they need and I've peeked in each, even testing the bed in one. I could see Quinn's hand in the decision, far more than Martha's.

I can't think of a nicer reward than remaining here. After that introduction, my wife listened; for more than five minutes, while Howie apparently continued to ramble. There's an afternoon Amtrak train that makes the trip from South Station in Boston to Philly in less than five hours.

While the scenery was less than exciting, lunch was available. They must have been more than just suspicious of you. I wondered if Howie's loss of memory had deeper roots than his later accident.

The girl was younger than Annie, but she was taken from her bed, same as Annie, and held for a week or more. But this guy figured he was better than everyone else in the place. I had more than an hour to wait at Philadelphia International Airport. The hundred mile drive up the coast to Santa Barbara took more than two hours during which we chatted the entire way.

Thankfully, most times people react rather than ask questions. The hospital was much more extensive than I expected. I hoped to god my wife was smarter than John Luke Grasso. She appears more outraged than frightened which is annoying. It's far easier to calmly pen the words I said than it was to say them. The phone rang more than a dozen times before a man with groggy voice answered.

Assistant Director Summerfield announced to the press at the height of the search, more than two hundred officers and volunteers were involved. While Dean discounted hooligans as the source of his vandalism, he was more than happy to accept Brandon Westlake's timely rescue. How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?

Her soft touch did more than erase the worry from his brow. Talking with Fritz was better than nothing, but this young man had an unusual way of thinking. I first spoke to Martha, while not fully committed; I knew she was more sympathetic to Howie than her husband. He's learning more about us than we're learning about him! More than a day followed until we'd chiseled, in ever increasing light, our precious opening. He's a nice young man and I feel would make a far less labor intensive mate than Howie would have proved to be.

He really wasn't too much bigger than a cat, not when compared to an adult. I require more than that. He was her world, but she'd been nothing more than an afterthought, strung along with promises for years. An hour of sleep was the longest he'd managed in over a week, and he felt more tired than when he lay down. He sensed rather than saw that someone was in it, watching them. Talon's boys are more violent than most of them. She couldn't focus on anything farther away than her hand, and looking at her hand made her cry.

She wondered how many more there would be and doubted she'd last more than another day or two if he kept draining her blood. His features were chiseled from golden granite, his blue eyes clearer than the Miami shallows. In all their years together, they'd never been out of communication more than a few days. It left him more hands-on with the western front than he'd been in hundreds of years.

He was even more striking than she remembered. There were more than he expected, and he counted six. He preferred his life much simpler than it already was.

Another part of her couldn't fathom how a man colder than a sociopath could be working for the side of good. It's so much cooler than , like, walking somewhere.

If she closed her eyes, she would have guessed him to be no older than her brother. Someone knocked at the door before she could turn on more than the living room lights. Bianca liked Jenn, though she felt there was more to the woman than she could pinpoint. White hair, really big like Talon, these eyes that were darker than night, and when he talked, you could tell he didn't have a soul.

Bianca was warm and sweet, the kind of woman who deserved better than he'd ever have to offer. Dusty said you're safer here than anywhere.

His thoughts went to the memory he wanted nothing more than to forget forever. There's more than one-night stands. There was something very different about this woman, and it was more than the feel of her energy flowing through him. She was fully a part of him when they touched, as if he'd been missing more than a piece of his soul all these years and just now realized it. Are you sure Europe is worse than here? No sooner had he opened his eyes than he heard the voice he least wanted to hear.

Her evolving power told her more than she wanted to know, even before she faced him. He was tall and lanky with a huge smile and close-spaced eyes that seemed more soulful than his youthful looks warranted. I can make more than one kind at once. He glared at her, unable to shake the sense that if Bianca hadn't thought smarter than him, she'd be dead.

Bianca healed me earlier, and I thought I could do more than I could, especially since This weekend looks worse than we thought. It's been a few hundred years, however, since English has treated them as distinct, which means we have to too. We could go back to Middle English, but we think that would be harder then—um, that is, harder than —mastering these. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Log in Sign Up. What to Know Than is used in comparisons as a conjunction as in "she is younger than I am" and as a preposition "he is taller than me". More Words At Play. Merriam-Webster's Words of the Week - Oct. Merriam-Webster's Words of the Week - Nov.

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