{"id":92,"date":"2008-07-18T17:48:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2021-09-02T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T21:14:29","slug":"thisthat-thesethose-thanthen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/adjectives-adverbs\/thisthat-thesethose-thanthen\/","title":{"rendered":"This<\/em> and That<\/em>, These<\/em> and Those<\/em>, Than<\/em> and Then<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/em> vs. That<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This<\/em> and that<\/em> are singular. This<\/em> indicates something physically nearby. It may also refer to something symbolically or emotionally “close.”\u00a0 That<\/em> can refer to something “over there” or to something that is not as symbolically or emotionally “close” as this<\/em> is.<\/p>\n

Examples:<\/strong>
\nThis dog is mine.<\/em>
\nThis is mine.<\/em>
\nThat dog is hers.<\/em>
\nThat is hers.<\/em>
\n
\nThese<\/em> vs. Those<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

These<\/em> and those<\/em> are the plural equivalents of this<\/em> and that<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Examples:<\/strong>
\nThese babies have been smiling for a while.<\/em>
\nThese are mine.<\/em>
\nThose babies in the nursery have been crying for hours.<\/em>
\nThose are yours.<\/em><\/p>\n

Than<\/em> vs. Then<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Use than<\/em> to show comparison. Then<\/em> answers the question when<\/em>. It also means in that case<\/em> or therefore<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Examples:<\/strong>
\nI would rather go skiing <\/em>than rock climbing.<\/em>
\n First we went skiing; <\/em>then we went rock climbing.<\/em>
\nIf it snows,<\/em> then we’ll go skiing.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Pop Quiz<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. This\/these tables need to be cleaned before customers arrive.
\n2. Please clean this\/that table in the corner.
\n3. These\/those clothes in the other room need to be folded.
\n4. That\/those toaster burned my bagel.
\n5. We reached the summit of the mountain and then\/than collapsed.
\n6. I would rather starve then\/than eat oysters.<\/p>\n

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Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. These<\/strong> tables need to be cleaned before customers arrive.
\n2. Please clean that<\/strong> table in the corner.
\n3. Those<\/strong> clothes in the other room need to be folded.
\n4. That<\/strong> toaster burned my bagel.
\n5. We reached the summit of the mountain and then<\/strong> collapsed.
\n6. I would rather starve than<\/strong> eat oysters.
\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This vs. That This and that are singular. This indicates something physically nearby. It may also refer to something symbolically or emotionally “close.”\u00a0 That can refer to something “over there” or to something that is not as symbolically or emotionally “close” as this is. Examples: This dog is mine. This is mine. That dog is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives-adverbs","category-clauses-sentences"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}