{"id":229,"date":"2020-05-12T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/?p=229"},"modified":"2020-05-12T09:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T06:13:51","slug":"rather-rather-than-would-rather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/2020\/05\/12\/rather-rather-than-would-rather\/","title":{"rendered":"Rather &#8211; Rather than &#8211;  Would rather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Rather<\/b> is an adverb of degree like \u2018fairly\u2019, \u2018quite\u2019, etc. used with nouns, adverbs, adjectives, and superlatives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That\u2019s rather a nuisance!<\/li>\n<li>He cooks rather well.<\/li>\n<li>She\u2019s got a rather nice voice.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s rather more than I expected to pay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Or rather<\/b>: to correct what we have just said, or make it more precise.<\/p>\n<p>His son is a doctor, or rather, a surgeon.<br \/>\nWe did the project,or rather, I did it all by myself<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Preferences:\u00a0 <b>'rather than' and 'would rather<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rather than<\/strong> :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It would be better to go in September rather than in August.<\/li>\n<li>I prefer to leave now rather than wait for all the speeches.<\/li>\n<li>He decided to write rather than telephone.<br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Rather than\u00a0 doing <\/b>:<br \/>\nWhen the main clause has a verb in the \u2013ing form, \u2018rather than\u2019 can be followed by \u2013ing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I prefer getting up early rather than rushing at the last minute.<br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>would rather do <\/b>= would prefer to do \u2013 same subject<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you rather live here or go back to London?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.(=\u00a0 would\u00a0 you prefer to live ...)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019d rather live here.(= I would prefer to live here.)<\/li>\n<li>I don't want to go to the swimming pool. I\u2019d rather go to the beach.(= I would prefer to go to the beach.)<br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>would rather\u00a0 have done <\/b>-\u00a0 same subject\u00a0 (=would prefer to have done \u2013\u00a0 (regret about something that has already happened)<br \/>\nI would rather have chosen the other card<br \/>\nI 'd rather not have done that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>I would rather you did. <\/b>I would rather YOU did (now \u2013future ) (different subjects)<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t come on Monday. I\u2019d rather you came on Tuesday.<br \/>\nI 'd rather you did it without my help<br \/>\nI'd rather you didn't lie<br \/>\nI 'd rather you told the truth<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>I would rather you had done<\/b>. I would rather HE had done- different subjects (refers to the\u00a0 past)\u00a0(express regret about something that has already happened)<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019d rather you hadn\u2019t done that = I wish you hadn\u2019t done that.<br \/>\nI'd rather you had told me the truth<br \/>\nI'd rather you hadn't gone there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116689\/2020\/05\/RATHER-WOULD-RATHER.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-230 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116689\/2020\/05\/RATHER-WOULD-RATHER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1016\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116689\/2020\/05\/RATHER-WOULD-RATHER.png 1016w, https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116689\/2020\/05\/RATHER-WOULD-RATHER-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116689\/2020\/05\/RATHER-WOULD-RATHER-768x424.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather is an adverb of degree like \u2018fairly\u2019, \u2018quite\u2019, etc. used with nouns, adverbs, adjectives, and superlatives. That\u2019s rather a nuisance! He cooks rather well. She\u2019s got a rather nice <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/2020\/05\/12\/rather-rather-than-would-rather\/\">read more..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[39,48,55],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-grammar","tag-pre-intermediate","tag-b1-upper-intermediate","tag-rather-would-rather","col-sm-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/katerinakatsara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}