{"id":71887,"date":"2019-08-30T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T08:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71887"},"modified":"2019-08-30T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T08:50:18","slug":"different-from-different-to-or-different-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/different-from-different-to-or-different-than\/","title":{"rendered":"Different From, Different To Or Different Than"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Different<\/strong> is usually followed by<strong> from.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is quite <strong>different from<\/strong> that.<\/li>\n<li>She is very <strong>different from<\/strong> her sister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many British speakers also use <strong>to<\/strong> after different.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His ideas are <strong>different from<\/strong> those of his friends.<\/li>\n<li>OR His ideas are<strong> different to<\/strong> those of his friends.<\/li>\n<li>She is very<strong> different from<\/strong> her sister.<\/li>\n<li>OR She is very <strong>different to<\/strong> her sister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In American English, <strong>than<\/strong> is common after different. <strong>From<\/strong> is also used.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American football is very <strong>different from<\/strong> soccer. OR American football is very <strong>different than<\/strong> soccer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In British English,<strong> different than<\/strong> is possible before a clause.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The situation is <strong>different from<\/strong> what I expected.<\/li>\n<li>OR The situation is <strong>different to<\/strong> what I expected.<\/li>\n<li>OR The situation is <strong>different than<\/strong> I expected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different is usually followed by from. This is quite different from that. She is very different from her sister. Many British speakers also use to after different. His ideas are different from those of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[992,994,993,995],"class_list":["post-71887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-different-from","tag-different-than","tag-different-to","tag-preposition-after-different"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71888,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71887\/revisions\/71888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}