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Default Re: hi! there is a question about grammer

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Originally Posted by enginozel43 View Post
ı prefer watching tv rather than swimming or ı prefer to watch tv rather than swim.
which sentence is correct?please inform me!
They are both correct. One is looking for parallelism in comparisons. The items on both sides of "rather than" must be in the same form.

1. watching tv : swimming (both gerunds)
2. to watch TV : (to) swim (both infinitives)
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