Difference between Sooner and Earlier

What is the difference between Sooner and Earlier?

Sooner as an adjective is short in length of time from the present. while Earlier as an adjective is at a time in advance of the usual or expected event.

Sooner

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Short in length of time from the present.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Immediately, instantly. rather.

Example sentence: If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Earlier

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: At a time before expected; sooner than usual.previously; before now; sooner

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.occurring previously

Example sentence: My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

We hope you now know whether to use Sooner or Earlier in your sentence.

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