Lesson 201

According to this movie, Gentlemen prefer blondes

When you talk about your preferences (and you use words like prefer and rather) there are  couple of interesting structures you should pay attention to.

Prefer

I prefer chocolate to vanilla.

I prefer chocolate to vanilla

I prefer to eat rice with chopsticks.

I would prefer to eat rice with chopsticks.

notice what happens when the we consider my preferences for other people.

I prefer you not play your music so loud.

I would prefer you didn't play your music so loud.

 

Would Rather

The same is true with would rather

I would rather watch hockey.

I would rather you didn't watch tennis.