Timeline for Can we use "before" after "than" as in "than before" for a sentence in past tense
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| Sep 16 at 9:28 | comment | added | Peter Kirkpatrick | @Kazuhiro7299, no. Before in that sentence can naturally be an adverb or a preposition with an implied referent. But the sentence by itself does leave that question open: Which is it? In a real life example you would presumably have a context that assists in the interpretation. | |
| Apr 14, 2022 at 0:17 | history | edited | Mohsen Sadi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2022 at 23:30 | comment | added | Kazuhiro7299 | Does that mean you interpret "before" as a conjunction or preposition, not as an adverb, which means the past time in general? | |
| Apr 13, 2022 at 18:56 | comment | added | Ronald Sole | Sentence "a" does leave the reader wondering "better than before what! - the outbreak of war?" | |
| Apr 13, 2022 at 13:28 | history | edited | Mohsen Sadi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2022 at 12:56 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | (c) needs the addition of ever to make it idiomatic English - better than it has ever been before - though this would usually be expressed as better than ever before. | |
| Apr 13, 2022 at 12:37 | history | answered | Mohsen Sadi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |