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Kourtneyj Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Rather

I am trying to teach my students parts of speech. They came up with the sentence, "I'd rather eat ice cream than diagram sentences." What part of speech is rather and than?
  

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Hi kourtneyj, Rather - adverb modifying eat Than - conjunction That's how I understand it. MountainHiker

  • Hi kourtneyj, Rather - adverb modifying eat Than - conjunction That's how I understand it.
  • MountainHiker
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Hi kourtneyj,

Rather - adverb modifying eat

Than - conjunction

That's how I understand it.

MountainHiker

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