Grammar Post

So I am getting a early jump on my grammar post this week so I don't forget to do it. My issue this week is rather and easy one. It has to do with when you use than rather than then. If then is required then when do you it? When comparing two objectives then you use than, but like the then in the last statement,  then you use then when comparing time.

To make that a little less confusing, use then when time is involved. 

EX: I went to the store, then I went home.

You use than when you are comparing two things.

EX: I rather eat chocolate ice cream than vanilla.

A challenge for anyone who leaves a comment. Try to come up with a more confusing way to explain than and then. You must use then and than correctly when stating when then would be used and when than would be used!

My Concern

My biggest concern is really simple. I just am afraid that I am not writing this paper in the right format. I feel like my essay might be more of just a report on an interview I had with a illegal immigrant. What is the difference between a interview paper and an ethnographic report? Need some good responses.

Ok so for my grammar post I am going to just expound more on my last one. I actually found away simpler way to explain it from another resource. Last week I was talking about clarity in writing through word order and choice. To put my definition in simpler terms I said put the kick in the action verb. I think a better explanation to that would be as follows.

Rearrange your sentence so what ever is doing the action is stated before you state what they are doing. EX: The truck was ran into by the car. 

The car is doing the action, yet we put it behind what it was doing. This is making the truck the subject instead of the car.

If we arrange to make the acting noun the subject the sentence becomes more precise. EX: The car ran into the truck.

The sentence is simper, and the train of thought flows with what is happening in the sentence. I hope this is a better description and explanation than last weeks.