[Grammar] I preferred him to go school rather than stayed home.

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persianfriend71

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1.I preferred him to go school rather than stayed home.
2.I preferred him to go school rather than stay home
which one is correct?
 

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Re: verb

Try:

I preferred that he go to school rather than stay home.
 

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Re: verb

Or:

I wanted him to go to school instead of staying at home.
 

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persianfriend, please note that I have changed your thread title.

Extract from the Posting Guidelines:

'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'
 

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"Go school" is not correct.
 

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1. space here I preferred him to go school rather than stayed home.
2. space here I preferred him to go school rather than stay home.

Which one is correct?

Note my corrections to your original post above. I am certain that I have made similar corrections to your other posts. You must follow these rules of written English:

- Start every sentence with a capital letter.
- End every sentence with one appropriate punctuation mark.
- Put a space after every comma and full stop.

The other responses have already given you some correct ways of saying your sentences, so I haven't done that. I simply wanted to show you how your post should have looked.
 
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