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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

prefer to / than

She preferred to cook to eat out.

Is this correct ?
  

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She preferred to cook rather than to eat out. She preferred cooking to eating out.

— Blue Jay

  • She preferred to cook rather than to eat out.
  • She preferred cooking to eating out.
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She preferred to cook rather than to eat out.
She preferred cooking to eating out.
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Do we need the word "rather"?

She preferred to cook rather than to eat out.

Thank you.
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No, I prefer to use it, but it is correct without it.
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Blue Jay No, I prefer to use it, but it is correct without it..
I was taught: She preferred to cook RATHER than to eat out.
"Rather" is obligatory. Was I taught wrong?
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tamguatlay"Rather" is obligatory. Was I taught wrong?
I would not say it was obligatory, but I always use it,
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AnonymousDear Sandra, Pls take a min and get urself clarified about subjects and objects. In your example sentence "It's we", "we" assumes the position of a subject and hence it is right.
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till now i didn't understand the differance
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Anonymous It's "Difference"
There is no need to capitalize "difference", and every sentence ends with a period.
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The comma should be included within the quotation marks.
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