@Mr_NutterButter don't even get me started on then and than
Then is only used when talking about time and order of things (eg. I ate then had a drink)
Than is only for comparing two things (eg. A hill is smaller than a mountain)
Both together - A bird jumped then flew, I'd rather be a bird than a mouse
@Jazzy_Butts
You forgot some important things:
"Then" is almost exclusively used for linking events which happened in direct relation to each other, otherwise it sounds awkward and doesn't make much sense.
Yes: "I left work and then went home."
Not really: "I got pregnant and then had a fever."
"Than" is mostly used things that can be (relatively) *directly* compared.
@Mr_NutterButter
@Jazzy_Butts I was trying to think of events that were *chronologically sequential* but made no sense being linked together. @Mr_NutterButter
@wolfbro @Mr_NutterButter Ah, so like, "Hitler was a bad man and then I had cake at my birthday party last week"
@Jazzy_Butts Yeah, they're technically sequential in time but have no reason to be linked together. @Mr_NutterButter
@wolfbro @Mr_NutterButter I didn't know that about "then", to me the pregnancy and fever one makes sense still