No worry! To be honest I'm already sick and tired of obeying the rules lol and I think it's important to grasp what is acceptable and unaccetable in the reality.

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moomaidens

24 May

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@fukutaka Ahaha, you're right! If I was speaking out loud then I would use either "sugarcoat" or "sugarcoating" because I doubt most people would consider verb forms while casually chatting! So yeah, it's definitely important to grasp what you can kind of get away with 😁 It is important to know the grammatical rules though, so thank you for reminding me! I'd forgotten that about verb forms and I'm a native speaker 😅

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Does this sound natural? which is better, rather than or not?
All they have to do is solve the problem, rather than/not sugarcoat it.

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Does this sound natural? which is better, rather than or not?All they have to do is solve the problem, rather than/not sugarcoat it. See a translation

Both sound natural! "Rather than" sounds a little more polite and professional, in my opinion.

I also think that adding "ing" to sugarcoat might help it sound a bit more natural. "All they have to do is solve the problem, rather than sugarcoating it." I feel that this would only work with "rather than", though.

Does this sound natural? which is better, rather than or not?
All they have to do is solve the problem, rather than/not sugarcoat it.

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