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Kaiss Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
"rather than"
Hello,
Please, would someone tell me what is the best choice in the following sentence: "It is better to support an activity with resources (rather) than (running or to run) any new activity".
Thanks.
Please, would someone tell me what is the best choice in the following sentence: "It is better to support an activity with resources (rather) than (running or to run) any new activity".
Thanks.
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It is better to support an activity with resources than running any new activity.
- It is better to support an activity with resources than running any new activity.
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It is better to support an activity with resources than running any new activity.
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rather ... run
"Run" is parallel with "to support" (X is better than Y), so they should both be infinitives. Natural speech tends to drop the second particle "to" (to run), letting the first one (to support) do all the work, but "to run" would not be unnatural.
"Run" is parallel with "to support" (X is better than Y), so they should both be infinitives. Natural speech tends to drop the second particle "to" (
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