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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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I would stay home rather than play outside.
0 Are these sentences the same in meaning? 02 br
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00 If so, which is more common? 02 br
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00 A: I would rather stay home than play outside. 02 br
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00 B: I would stay home rather than play outside. 0-
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00 If so, which is more common? 02 br
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00 A: I would rather stay home than play outside. 02 br
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00 B: I would stay home rather than play outside. 0-
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0 They don't mean the same thing. 02 br
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00 A means that this is your current preference 02 br
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00 B means that in the past you habitually chose to stay home instead of playing outside. 0-
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00 A means that this is your current preference 02 br
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00 B means that in the past you habitually chose to stay home instead of playing outside. 0-
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0 These are both using 01 b 00 past subjunctives with 01 i 00 would 02 i 02 b 00 , implying an option. 02 br
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00 To me, they both need some more explicit timing references. 02 br
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00 Without them, they are mainly related to the present or the future, and only rarely to the past, as say per Curme, A Grammar of the Engl
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00 To me, they both need some more explicit timing references. 02 br
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00 Without them, they are mainly related to the present or the future, and only rarely to the past, as say per Curme, A Grammar of the Engl
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