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Faisalkhan Posted 10 years ago
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Is this sentence correct?

I prefer to be overrated to to be underestimated.
  

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faisalkhan Is this sentence correct? It seems too confusing to live. Use the '-ing' forms.

— Mister Micawber

  • faisalkhan Is this sentence correct?
  • It seems too confusing to live.
  • Use the '-ing' forms.
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faisalkhan Is this sentence correct?
It seems too confusing to live. Use the '-ing' forms.
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faisalkhanI prefer to be overrated to to be underestimated.
It's technically correct, but "to" occurs twice in a row, so, especially in its written form, it doesn't work stylistically.

I would use "rather than" instead of "to". ... to be ... rather than to be ....

CJ
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