Word Savvy by Ragno Nancy

Author:Ragno, Nancy [Nancy Ragno]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781599633039
Publisher: Writer’s Digest
Published: 2011-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

–MARK TWAIN

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

–WILLIAM BLAKE

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

–WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I wake up every morning at nine and grab the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

–BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

THAN conj. Introduces the second part of a comparison.

THEN adv. 1. At that time in the past. 2. Next in a series or order. 3. At another time in the future.

Wine is sweeter than vinegar.

My brother is taller than I. (taller than I am tall)

I once lived in that house, but that was then and now is now.

First preheat the oven, and then bake the pizza.

One day I’ll be discovered by Hollywood. Then life will be perfect!

USAGE NOTES

A common mistake is to use the wrong pronoun after than. To avoid this problem mentally supply the missing verb. Correct: She walks faster than he (… faster than he walks). Incorrect: She walks faster than him (… faster than him walks).

MEMORY TRICKS

• CONNECT: than → compare.

• CONNECT: then → next.

QUIZ answers on page 205

1. Of all the romances in history, fewer were more tempestuous _____ that of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine.

2. Napoleon had never been more smitten _____ when he met the beautiful Paris socialite, a widow, who was _____ thirty-two years old.

3. Josephine evaded his advances, but _____ relented, and they were married in 1796.

4. Napoleon _____ went on military campaigns.

5. Rather _____ brood over his absence, Josephine _____ attended to her own affairs, adulterous though they were.

6. On hearing about it, the enraged Napoleon _____ demanded a divorce.

7. When Josephine pleaded with him, he ended up forgiving, rather divorcing, _____ her.

8. _____, when he became emperor, Napoleon did divorce Josephine.

9. Hoping for a son, he married a woman much younger _____ Josephine.

10. But Napoleon had loved no woman more _____ Josephine.

11. When she died, the grief-stricken Napoleon took violets from her garden and put them in a locket, which he _____ wore until his death.

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