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28 Dec 2019
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What kind of verb should I use with “rather than”?
Some say the verb that comes after “rather than” should have the same tense as that comes before “rather than”, but from what I read in the dictionary, no matter what, the verb tense should only be either the base form or the ving form.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/dictionary.cambridg...
What kind of verb should I use with “rather than”?
Some say the verb that comes after “rather than” should have the same tense as that comes before “rather than”, but from what I read in the dictionary, no matter what, the verb tense should only be either the base form or the ving form.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/dictionary.cambridg...
Some say the verb that comes after “rather than” should have the same tense as that comes before “rather than”, but from what I read in the dictionary, no matter what, the verb tense should only be either the base form or the ving form.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/dictionary.cambridg...
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That rule for using the base form or the -ing form is when "Rather than" is at the start of a sentence.
But when "rather than" comes in the middle of the sentence you have to match the tenses before and after.
Hope that helped!
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