Is this sentence correct?

Question

How you think is different than other people.

Answer 1

I think you mean that I think one way, whereas other people think a different way. (Which seems to be true, given the other answers you've received.)

There are two things wrong in that case:

"Different" belongs not with "than", but with "from" (in American English) or with "to" (in British English).

And, when you make comparisons it's best to compare equivalent constructions, whether they're single words, phrases, clauses, etc. Here you're comparing a clause "how you think" to a phrase "other people" and (as you've seen), it's not quite clear.

You could either change the first one to a phrase "your way of thinking" (then you're comparing ways of thinking so you should change the second thing to "other people's ways of thinking") or you could change the second one to a comparable clause "how other people think". In both cases, you can then eliminate some unnecessary words. You're left with:

Your way of thinking is different from/to other people's.

or

How you think is different from/to how other people do.

Answer 2

Actually, the correct sentence would read, "How you think is different from other people," but probably at least have of English speakers would say "than" rather than "from", so in the sense of a living language, your sentence is fine.

Answer 3

First of all, you need the auxiliary verb "do" in order to form a correct question in the Present Simple Tense, if your sentence is a question: "How DO you think...?" Then, you need the word "that": How do you think THAT..." After that, you need the subject for the second clause (he, or she, or a name of a person). Ultimately, the word "than" must be replaced: from. Your sentence will become: "How Do you think THAT He/She/Johnny is different FROM other people?"

Answer 4

Yes, it is a fragment but only because you left out some important words. I presume you are learning English as a second language. Mistakes like this are common. Please be careful with the word "than." Study the difference between "than" and the word "from."

What you wrote does not make sense nor does it even indicate what you are trying to express.

I can make some guesses and try to construct a proper sentence for you.

Are you trying to say:
How do you think you are different from other people? or
How you think makes you different from other people.

Good luck with your studies.

Answer 5

Yes, in the USA.

The Brits would frown on the 'than' and use 'from' instead.

In conversational English I'd leave it be; if it were a more formal publication I'd restructure it to:

"You think in a different way from/than other people"

As in, e.g.

"You think in a different way from other people", said Professor Klinsmann-Ballack-Frings admiringly, peering over the table at the young Albert Einstein.

This is easier to grasp without re-reading.

It does not require either commas or commers.

Nor is it a sentence fragment (see the example above).

Answer 6

With the word different, its common preposition partner is from. So to make your sentence correct, you can say HOW YOU THINK IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER PEOPLE.. and even better with THE WAY YOU THINK IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS.

Additional:
How needs a process. THE WAY is HOW... Others means people... That' all...

Answer 7

No, it should be "How you think is different from how other people think".

The people who think it is not a complete sentence don't understand the meaning of the sentence.

Answer 8

Everyone thinks different. You could sit 100 people down in a room and not everyone is going to think the same. That's why we have such dissension among us. Not everyone can get on the same page. Unfortunate is some ways great in others. If we all thought the same where would the healthy debate go? I think when people get too bent about something is when it isn't healthy anymore.

Answer 9

Yes it is correct if it means one person thinks very differently than other people.

Answer 10

I don't think so, but I'm not sure that I understand what you're trying to say. I would go with, "How you think is different from other people" or "You think differently than other people".