{"id":7639,"date":"2014-10-08T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"farther-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/farther-further\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Farther or Further, Father?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grammar-Police_badge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-7640\" src=\"http:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grammar-Police_badge.jpg\" alt=\"Grammar police, further or farther\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>One of those grammatical faux pas that people sometimes make is in confusing the words \u201cfarther\u201d and \u201cfurther\u201d. They do have distinctly different meaning and cannot be used interchangeably.<\/p>\n<p>The easy way to remember it is that <strong>far<\/strong>ther is a measure of distance: think, \u2018is it far?\u201d while <strong>fur<\/strong>ther is a measure of degree: \u201chow thick is your fur\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some example sentences:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can throw the ball farther than you.<\/li>\n<li>You can further your education with self-study courses.<\/li>\n<li>How much farther will we drive before we stop for the night?<\/li>\n<li>How much further will you read in that book before you turn out the light and go to sleep?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>See the difference?<\/h2>\n<p>Farther is a measure of physical distance. Further is a measure of degree or proportion. If you keep the memory key of \u201cHow far \u2013 thick fur\u201d in mind it should help you use these words correctly.\u00a0 <a title=\"Get more from Holly on her blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holly Jahangiri<\/a> brings it all together for us with this example, &#8220;The son of a pro mountain climber attempting to scale Everest, furthers his career by climbing farther than his father.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those grammatical faux pas that people sometimes make is in confusing the words &ldquo;farther&rdquo; and &ldquo;further&rdquo;. They do have distinctly different meaning and cannot be used interchangeably. The easy way to remember it is that farther is a measure of distance: think, &lsquo;is it far?&rdquo; while further is a measure of degree: &ldquo;how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/farther-further\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is It Farther or Further, Father?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,29],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","tag-grammar","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19775,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/19775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}