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PREFERENCEBy Lia Cahyati, S.Pd.
Preference On English Grammar
Preference adalah ungkapan perasaan yang menyatakan lebih suka daripada yang lainnya.
Sometimes you need to state a preference when someone makes a suggestion, offers something or asks your opinion about what to do.
There are commonly four ways of expressing preference on English grammar, where people tend to pick their choices based on it.Those are:1. like - better than2. prefer – to3. would rather – than4. would prefer - rather than
Ways of Saying Preference
The Patterns
like - better
than
•Subject + like + Noun + better than + Noun
•Subject + like +Gerund+ better than + Gerund
prefer – to
•Subject + Prefer + Noun + to + Noun
•Subject + Prefer + Gerund + to + Gerund
would rather – than
•Subject + Would rather + Infinitive + than + Infinitive
would prefer -
rather
than
•Subject + Would Prefer to + Infinitive +rather than + Infinitive
For your information
Noun Kata Benda e.g: coffee, tea, comic, spiderman movie, etc. Gerund Kata Kerja –ing (Verb-ing) e.g: playing, singing, dancing, listening to music etc.Infinitive Kata Kerja dasar (Verb 1) e.g: play, sing, dance, listen to music, etc.
Exampleslike-better than
like Noun - better than Noun
X √I like Lee Min Ho better than Choi
Siwon.
like V-ing- better than V-ing
√ X
She likes listening to the music better than
watching tv.
Examplesprefer-to
prefer Noun - to Noun
√ X
Miss Cahya prefers coffee to tea.
prefer V-ing- toV-ing
√ XHe prefers playing
football to swimming.
Examples would rather – than and would
prefer - rather thanwould rather
Verb-1 – than Verb-1
√ X
She would rather sing than dance.
would prefer to Verb-1 - rather than Verb-1
X √She would prefer to
watch the movie rather than go
shopping.
That’s it!