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THEN VS. THAN 37 “This inaugural party . . . is lost to the murky haze . . .” (Committee 5). “No problem the committee reasoned . . .” (Committee 5). Note in these examples that, following American typographic convention, the period comes outside of the citation. This is true unless the quotation is extracted and set apart from the main body of the essay. Then vs. than Then is an adverb denoting time; than is a conjunction used in comparisons. In the middle of the night the young woman awoke and then saw that the fire had gone out. The previous day more firewood than ever had been carried inside, but still it ran out. She struggled from her sleeping bag, fully clothed except for shoes; then she peered at the thermometer. It read 34 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, which was lower than she had ever noted. She thought about the woodpile thirty feet away, then opened the cabin door. Her nostrils froze, then her eyes tingled more than normal. † She decided against the wood, closed the door, then crawled back into her sleeping bag.
38 INCOMPLETE SENTENCES Incomplete sentences Avoid incomplete sentences (often described as sentence fragments). not. You were asking me something, but couldn’t tell you my answer. not. The water clear and chilling as I swam stroke after stroke underwater. Sometimes authors purposely use sentence fragments. The example below is from George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Orwell uses the incomplete sentence to produce an effect of immediacy or informality. Be sparing in such use. “In the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona, the day before I joined the militia, saw an Italian militiaman standing in front of the officers’ table.”
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