tutaj dzial z Collinsa zapodaje (jak tak dalej bedzie to udostepnie cala knige, a wiem, ze mg tego nie aprobuje, i jeszcze bardziej mi bedzie dopiekal :/
DIFFERENT
If one thing is different from another, it is unlike the other thing in some way.
The meeting was different from any that had gone before.
Health is different from physical fitness.
Many British people say that one thing is different to another. Different to means the same as different from.
Work can be said to be different to a career.
Morgan's law books were different to theirs.
Note that some people object to this use. In conversation, you can use either different from or different to, but in writing it is better to use different from.
American speakers say that one thing is different from or different than another.
I love the English style of football. It's so different than ours.
WARNING
You do not use `different than' in British English.
`very different'
If there is a great difference between two things, you can say that one thing is very different from the other.
They are in an enclosed community, which is very different from going to work for eight hours a day.
Note that you do not say that one thing is `much different' from another.
If two things are quite similar, you can say that one thing is not very different from the other or not much different from the other.
I discovered that things were not very different from what I had seen in New York.
The food an old person needs is not much different from what anyone else requires.
Inflation during March was not much different from the annual rate that has prevailed for some time.
`no different'
If two things are alike, you can say that one thing is no different from the other.
The fields you could see from the bus window seemed no different from equivalent fields in Iowa.
Note that you do not say that one thing is `not different' from another.