The usage of rather than.

It's when you want to express that it's better to do one thing than another.
Here in your example, someone thinks that it would be better for a company to put their money into protecting ...etc... than to support the development of art.

I would go with the red balloon rather than the blue one.

Then I'd say " I'd rather go with the red balloon than with the blue one"

Position of "rather"
-- "A rather than B" or "rather A than B"

It is red rather than white. 26
It is rather red than white. 20

It is good rather than bad. 241
It is rather good than bad. 34

I am a student rather than something 9
I am rather a student than something 0

It rains rather than snows. 13.
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0 I need to know whether I will be punished for full infinitive during, for example, Cambridge exams. Few grammar books give that possibility. Google gives over 1 million hits (rather than to 01b001,520,00002b00). I need to know if it's grammaticaly correct and acceptable.02br
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