prefer

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 than

2.

prefer – to

3. would rather – than

4.

would prefer - rather than

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

 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.

Examples

like-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.

Examples
prefer-to

 prefer Noun - to Noun

√

X

Miss Cahya prefers

coffee to tea.

 prefer V-ing- toV-ing

√

X

He prefers playing

football to
swimming.

Examples

would rather – than and would prefer - rather than

 would 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!