Preferência com WOULD RATHER

Preferência com WOULD RATHER
Professor Bruno Peron
Aug 9, 2023, Wednesday

Com a expressão would rather (abreviada em ‘d rather), temos o sentido de preferência (de uma coisa a outra, ou de fazer uma coisa a fazer outra). É o que você quer ou prefere fazer ou ter. O sentido de would rather é similar ao de would prefer to do. Pensando na estrutura de would rather (‘d rather), usamos o infinitivo sem o ‘to’ após ‘would rather’ (would rather sleep, would rather go, would rather walk).

Note esta pergunta e sua resposta com would rather:
Would you rather study in the morning or at night? (Would you…?)
I’d rather study at night. / I would rather study at night. (I’d rather…)

We’d rather not talk about this issue. / We would rather…
We prefer not to talk about this issue. (prefer to talk)
We prefer not talking about this issue. (prefer talking)

I’d rather drive small cars than buy large ones.
= Eu prefiro dirigir carros pequenos a comprar carros grandes.
Veja aqui a preferência de uma coisa sobre outra com ‘than’.

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