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the difference between prefer would prefer
and would rather coming up
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if you join now prefer guys i will start with the more basic
ones and then i will move on to the more complicated ones
but there you will see that there's not a lot of difference between them okay
they're very specific but starting with the general one okay
i can use prefer just the verb prefer i prefer you prefer
he she prefers plus to so the next verb will be
in the infinitive form plus to or i can use
prefer plus the verb ing i prefer to study
or i prefer studying when i use this structure i am talking about
general preferences nothing specific okay i prefer to study
i prefer to study in the morning i prefer studying in the morning
okay i'm just talking about general preferences okay this is a very
important aspect of prefer that means you can use
this in many general conversations it's an easy
choice okay now there are more situations when you can
use prefer the next explanation i have here is
prefer something to another
okay this is a different structure let me show you an example
i prefer when it comes when it comes to english
i prefer listening to writing when i say this to you
i'm telling you that i prefer listening not
writing okay writing is not my my favorite activity
if i have to choose listening and writing
i prefer listening to writing okay so when i use this i prefer blah blah
to blah blah i'm saying that i prefer the number one
not the second one okay i prefer x not z okay that's my preference so
i prefer oh my god my hair i prefer this shirt to the one i was wearing well
i prefer this blouse to the one i was wearing yesterday
okay so i'm showing you with this phrase that i prefer number one not the second
so the thing that comes after to is the one that i don't prefer
so i prefer blah to blabla in english if i'm talking about
studying english i prefer listening to
writing i prefer writing excuse me i prefer listening i like to do listening
exercises when i'm studying writing yeah
not so much that's not really my favorite activity how about you what do
you prefer when it comes to studying english do you prefer listening to
writing like me or do you prefer writing to
listening let me know here in the chat and if you're watching the replay
in the comments now i can also use i prefer to blah blah blah blah blah
blah rather than this is a a structure okay
it'll basically give the same idea as i prefer blah blah
to to blah blah i prefer to drive rather than take the bus
so when you go to work do you prefer to drive rather than take the bus or do
you prefer to take the bus rather than
drive let me know some people prefer to take the bus because then they can
relax they can listen to music they can study and if you're driving you have to
pay attention you cannot really do anything else okay i prefer
to live in the city rather than in the countryside okay i prefer to live
in the city to the countryside all right so this is uh
a very similar idea so here i just repeated i prefer
uh something to another it's an option that you have so here i'm just
talking about prefer okay i prefer blah blah to
something else i prefer to study english rather than study italian to be very
honest english is my favorite language so
i prefer to study english rather than italian
that is true okay so you prefer one not the other okay
i prefer to something rather than the other thing okay
now if you paid attention the explanation is very basic
students tend to confuse this but there's not a lot of information about
them okay at least not for your level would
prefer when i use would prefer i'm not really talking about
general broad things okay i am talking about
something specific a specific situation something that i want in a
specific situation in a specific conversation so
tell me would you prefer coffee or tea um tea please okay coffee please
should we take the bus no really i'd prefer
to get a cab you know i think it's better
we'll save time you know if we take the bus we
we might get traffic i i don't know i think it's better if we take a cab
you may get a cab you may get traffic if you take a cab but hey
we don't know so here should we take the bus this is a specific
conversation i'm not just talking about my
preferences about something no i am in a specific conversation someone
asked me a specific question and now i am sharing my preference to
that specific conversation okay so that's the difference when i use
prefer and would prefer so I'd prefer to stay home tonight
rather than go out okay is that okay with you
so maybe your friend or uh your best friend or your boyfriend
girlfriend husband wife they ask you hey how about we go to the
movies well not right now because right now
there is no movie theater that is open at least not in brazil everything is
closed because of you know what we can't talk about that
here but let's say i'm having a conversation
so here i say oh you know what babe I'd prefer to stay
home tonight rather than go out so
i prefer to stay home not to go out so i'd prefer
to stay home rather than go out so it is possible to combine both remember that
when i use rather than is with the idea of not this okay
instead of so i'd prefer to stay home not go out rather than go out okay with
this particular structure i don't use ing
would you i do i would prefer to i would prefer drinking a
coffee i would prefer staying home no it's to i would prefer to
take a cab rather than the bus i would prefer to stay home
rather than go out so if this particular structure
would prefer unlike prefer no ing okay i prefer studying i prefer
to study so here in the situation the main difference
is i'm talking about something specific it's a specific conversation and i am
indicating a specific preference for that conversation for that particular
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would rather here's the interesting thing okay
would rather and would prefer can be used to
give the same idea okay you can go for it i would rather i would prefer
it's fine the difference is the structure
with would rather i cannot use to i would rather to go no
okay with prefer you have i would prefer to stay home but with rather
i would rather stay home so the idea itself the translation let's
put it this way is the same but the structure the
structure is different so i would prefer
to take a cab but with rather i would rather take a cab
no to i use the verb in the infinitive form but without
to no to anymore goodbye to would you rather if i want to use a verb
here would you rather drink you know would you rather have tea or
coffee would you rather drink some tea or coffee
coffee please so would you rather if i have a verb here if i want to save
her because in this case i wouldn't need i wouldn't necessarily need to to
include the verb but uh would you rather live
in brazil or in another country oh priscilla
you know i'd rather live in brazil because brazil is amazing
good weather it's very good it's sunny here
okay
if you are using that different structure Janaina then yes
rather than i prefer you know let's go back there i prefer
to stay home rather than go out okay so instead of
so with this meaning then you have to say rather
than okay but uh here would rather is a different idea okay it's the
same idea of i would prefer okay
so moving on would rather negative form if you want to make the negative
form of would rather you just need to include
the word or you just need to include the word not
next to rather okay so i would rather not
you know babe i'm super tired i would rather not go out tonight
you know um can we just watch netflix and chill
of course i love netflix i love chilling so uh that's the
the the idea okay uh now one important thing here that i i think
i didn't mention i can say i'd rather stay home than
go out tonight that's possible here the structures are
a little different because i'm not using prefer i'm using rather
so in this case since you asked Janaina in this case i
i separate them because here i'm not using prefer
so i would rather stay home rather excuse me i would rather
stay home than go out so if you use the complete ones i would rather
stay home then you can separate them than
go out okay i don't want to go out i prefer
to stay home but if you use the prefer then you will have the rather than
together and no would okay and here just a quick reminder just repeating
myself the negative form is i'd rather not and teacher what's the different the
difference in translation no difference i'd
rather i'd prefer they will give the same idea okay
uh now different structure i can use would rather plus
simple past yes but when i use this structure i'm not talking about past
i'm talking about present okay and hey if you're watching this lesson and you
think this is a little too complicated it's probably because this is not
appropriate to your level okay this kind of structure is a very
nice a very interesting structure but this is not a basic structure with
the exception of i prefer i prefer to study i prefer to go out
that's okay but i would rather i'd prefer with these
ideas they are a little bit more complex they would be more appropriate to
intermediate upper intermediate speakers okay
now would rather plus past i can use the structure would rather
plus simple past to indicate that i prefer someone to do
something i want someone okay my preference
is that you do something but the *structure* is in the past
so here hey priscilla are you... my sister she comes home and says hey
girl are you cooking tonight ah Paty i'd rather you made food tonight
you made dinner so here i'd rather you i need the pronoun you, Joao, Maria, francisco
the dog i don't know it depends on the conversation okay
i'd rather you made dinner so my sister asks me if i am cooking dinner but i
prefer her not me so i want her to do it so i say hey
you know what i'd rather you made dinner tonight
i'm really tired i'm not feeling so well as i know my sister and i know that she
doesn't cook she would probably or she would probably
order takeout because yo she doesn't cook
and she can occasionally make rice and beans maybe a steak
but i know that she would definitely definitely
order takeout okay uh do you cook what's your specialty let me know here
in the comments uh hey i'd rather negative form
i'd rather you didn't tell anyone about that so maybe i tell you a
secret i tell you something very personal very
private something that is happening to me
something that is making me a little sad and i
i share this with you after i tell you i after i tell you the story uh maybe
i'm saying goodbye you know hey goodbye i'll see you
tomorrow then i can look at you and say hey
um you know what i'd rather you didn't tell anyone about this
because it's really private so i won't feel comfortable
if you do that so here i'd rather you didn't tell
even though it's in the past the idea is in the present so when i tell that to my
friend i'm what i want to say is don't tell anyone i don't want you to tell
people what i told you uh i don't want you to share this
information with anyone okay so that's the idea of would rather plus
past okay now this is important this is not a basic structure
as i told you this is a more uh advanced structure that you can use in
conversations and to find the right context to use
this context to use this structure will require a
more advanced level that's why i say that
this is not so basic okay other than that my friends thank
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