Please native, help me look over these sentences?

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Could you please help me correct these sentences? Which of these are correct?

1 I'd rather he lost than won.

I'd rather he lost than she won.

2 She called me right when I was calling her.

She was calling me right when I was calling her.

She called me right when I called her.

She was calling me right when I called her.

3 There are more subway drivers who don't wait for all the passengers to be on board before closing the doors than there are drivers who wait for everyone to be on before closing the doors.

More often than not, you have drivers who don't wait for all the passengers to be on board before closing the doors.

4 She's pretty to me.
She's pretty in my eyes.

5 If the exit was on the other side of the platform, why would she get on the subway here.

If the exit was on the other side of the platform, why would she have gotten on the subway here.

6 You're not allowed to be sick so often/much.

7 I went to go see who worked/works tomorrow.

Thank you

Melon_soda · Accepted Answer

There is always more than one way to say something and everything except number 7 is good.

I went to see who will work tomorrow.

I went to see will be working tomorrow.

I went to see who was working tomorrow.

For number 3 I prefer:

"More often than not, you have drivers who don't wait for all the passengers to be on board before closing the doors."

But there is nothing particularly wrong with the other example.

Number 5.

I don't like 'gotten', but I'm from the UK and we don't use that word here. Maybe it's ok in US english? It may be fine when speaking but I would stick to 'got' in written english.

Alc24 · Answer

Thank you,

In 1 you are comparing two different things are both correct?

It's two different things right

1 I'd rather he lost than won.

I'd rather he lost than she won.

COuld I ask you a few things about rather please as I have no clue what right?

Would you rather have stayed home or gone to work?

Would you rather have stayed home THAN gone to work? (does this mean that the person went to work?)

Would you rather have stayed home OR gone to work? (if the person you are asking was at work, can you ask him or it doesn't make sense? if the person you are asking was a home, can you ask him this or is this question hypothetical and he wasn't at home or at work)

I tried to say this but I don't know how:

We never went on vacation as a child. My mom would rather buy us clothes. She bought us lots of clothes to make up for not going on holiday.

We never went on vacation as a child. My mom would rather have bought us clothes. She bought us lots of clothes to make up for not going on holiday.

I don't know how to thank you thank you so much I'm confused with this.

How do you correctly have this conversation?

If today is friday

and a friend say : "I'd rather today was saturday"

and you say : I'm glad today is friday and not saturday. (I'd rather today was today)

for the second example

If you worked all week and today is friday and your friend says "If I could have chosen, I would rather have worked next week than this week"

and your rebuttal : "I'm happy I worked this week, I would rather have worked this week than next week If I was given the choice, it's a good thing I worked this week right."

If the person went to work this morning and it's 8pm now can he say the following sentence:

I'd rather have stayed home than gone to work. I think you can, lets see what john has to say

Thank you so much melon soda

Please native, help me look over these sentences?

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