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!