than/then

What is the difference between than and then?

Use than in making comparisons; use then on all other occasions.

• Who can say whether Amy Lowell is a better poet than Denise Levertov? I will read Lowell first, and then I will read Levertov.

Extra Examples:

• He thinks you are better than us.
• He has lived more than eighty years.
• Alex had been hiding more than a father.
• No one could have been more private than Josh.
• Less than a week later she passed another milestone.

• Then he picked up another box.
• Then he turned to do it all in reverse.
• She said something and then rode ahead.
• Then she ran straight into the fence - like she didn't see it.
• Alex glanced at Jonathan and then rubbed the top of his head.

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