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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffli" data-source="post: 11929199" data-attributes="member: 382922"><p><strong>Special grammar</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><u>Special grammar</u></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Usually 'rather' is immediately followed by a verb.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Ex: "I'd rather drink coffee than tea."   (Here, I'd = I would)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">But in this special case we are going to discuss, we use 'rather' without being followed by a verb.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Ex :</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I'd rather he went.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I'd rather he didn't.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">He'd rather you called the police.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I'd rather you didn't hunt elephants.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Though we use past tense in the second clause We are not talking about a</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">past time in these sentences. It is named as unreal past. When we want to</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">talk about a course of action we would prefer someone else to take, we</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">use,</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I'd rather + someone + past tense</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>NOTE:</strong> <u>The stress or tone can be important in these sentences, to show what</u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><u>our preference is:</u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Ex :</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I'd rather <strong>you</strong> went = not me,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I'd rather you <strong>went</strong> = don't stay</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">He'd rather <strong>you </strong>called the police = he doesn't want to</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">He'd rather you called the <strong>police</strong> = not the ambulance service</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><u>When we want to talk about the past, we use past perfect tense as</u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><u>shown in the below structure. </u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">would rather  + somebody + Past Perfect. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Ex :</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I'd rather you had asked me about buying that car. (you didn't ask)</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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