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Navitasan Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

I'd rather

Are these correct:
1-Yesterday, I'd rather stay at home. Today, I'd rather go out.
2-Yesterday, I'd rather you stayed with me. Today, I'd rather you left me.

Gratefully,
Navi.
  

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The "Today's" work, but the "Yesterday's" need fixing. Yesterday, I'd rather have stayed at home. Yesterday, I'd rather you had stayed with me.

  • The "Today's" work, but the "Yesterday's" need fixing.
  • Yesterday, I'd rather have stayed at home.
  • Yesterday, I'd rather you had stayed with me.
  • I know it seems like the tense change should go with the "would," but tense changes with modal verbs are a bit beyond my comprehension.
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The "Today's" work, but the "Yesterday's" need fixing.

Yesterday, I'd rather have stayed at home.
Yesterday, I'd rather you had stayed with me.

I know it seems like the tense change should go with the "would," but tense changes with modal verbs are a bit beyond my comprehension.
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Thank you very much Avangi,

Yesterday, I'd rather have stayed at home.
Yesterday, I'd rather you had stayed with me.

Don't these imply that I did not stay home?

I wanted to say
Yesterday, I wanted to stay at home.
Yesterday, I wanted you to stay with me.

This does not make it clear whether I
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navitasanDon't these imply that I did not stay home?
Indeed they do!
navitasanI wanted to sayYesterday, I wanted to stay at home.Yesterday, I wanted you to stay with me.
Then I'm afraid that's what you may have to say. The alternative you propose is ungrammatical.
navitasanThis does not make it clear
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Thank you very much Avangi,
One more question here:

How about this one

A-I would have rather stayed at home yesterday.

Is it correct?
What does it mean?
The same as "I would rather have stayed at home yesterday,"

Gratefully,
Navi.
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If the red version is correct, they both carry the same meaning.

I'd really like to get another opinion on it.
I personally would not use it, but it seems as though I've heard it.
Let me try Google.

Edit. Well, there are plenty of examples of both, but the other order wins seven to one.

"would rather have stayed" 799,000
"would have rather sta
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Thank you very much Avangi.

Maybe there is a difference between BrE and AmE in this respect, although I did not think so.

My theory was that:

I would rather have stayed = I would prefer to have stayed.... (Now I would prefer to have stayed)
and:
I would have rather stayed = I would have prefered to stay... (My preference then was to stay)

I think that th

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