{"id":73400,"date":"2020-03-24T09:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73400"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:22:54","slug":"rather-than-vs-would-rather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/rather-than-vs-would-rather\/","title":{"rendered":"Rather Than vs. Would Rather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Rather than\u00a0<\/b>is normally used in\u00a0parallel structures: for example with two\u00a0adjectives, adverbs, nouns,\u00a0infinitives\u00a0or\u00a0-ing forms. When the main clause has a\u00a0<i>to-infinitive<\/i>,\u00a0<b>rather than\u00a0<\/b>is normally followed by an infinitive without to. An\u00a0<b>-ing\u00a0<\/b>form is also possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would prefer to leave now<b>\u00a0rather than<\/b>\u00a0wait.<\/li>\n<li>You ought to admit your crime<b>\u00a0rather than\u00a0<\/b>defend it.<\/li>\n<li>I would prefer to go in August\u00a0<b>rather than\u00a0<\/b>in July.<\/li>\n<li>I decided to write\u00a0<b>rather than\u00a0<\/b>phone\/phoning. (NOT \u2026than to phone)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Would rather<\/h3>\n<p><b>Would rather\u00a0<\/b>means &#8216;would prefer to&#8217;. It is followed by an\u00a0infinitive without to.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Would\u00a0<\/b>you\u00a0<b>rather<\/b>\u00a0stay here or go home? (=Would you prefer to stay here or go home.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Would rather + subject + past tense<\/h3>\n<p>We can use\u00a0<b>would rather<\/b>\u00a0to say that one person would prefer another or others to do something. We use a special structure with a past tense.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t come today, I\u00a0<b>would rather<\/b>\u00a0you came tomorrow. (=I would prefer you to come tomorrow.)<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>would rather\u00a0<\/b>you posted this letter. (= I would like you to post this letter.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To talk about past actions, a\u00a0<b>past perfect tense<\/b>\u00a0is possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>would rather<\/b>\u00a0you hadn&#8217;t done that. (= I wish you hadn&#8217;t done that.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than\u00a0is normally used in\u00a0parallel structures: for example with two\u00a0adjectives, adverbs, nouns,\u00a0infinitives\u00a0or\u00a0-ing forms. When the main clause has a\u00a0to-infinitive,\u00a0rather than\u00a0is normally followed by an infinitive without to. An\u00a0-ing\u00a0form is also possible. I would prefer&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2216,2217,429],"class_list":["post-73400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-rather-than","tag-rather-than-vs-would-rather","tag-would-rather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73401,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73400\/revisions\/73401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}