Examples:
| a. I prefer fruit salad to ice cream. |
| noun noun |
| b. Julie prefers champagne to wine. |
| noun noun |
| c. George likes desserts better than appetizers. |
| noun noun |
| d. My mom doesn’t like cookies better than French fries. |
| noun noun |
As you can see in the sentences above, we usually use a verb (ing) after prefer, like and the prepositions
to and better than.
Examples:
a. I prefer cooking at home to eating out. (cook – eat out)
b. Sonia prefers drinking coffee to eating a cookie. (drink – eat)
c. She likes ordering food better than cooking. (order – cook)
Exercise 2
(éksersais tu)
Complete the sentences.
1. When I’m thirsty, I prefer cold drinks hot drinks.
2. When I’m hungry, I chicken to fish.
3. I always chicken better than beef.
4. I like McDonald’s Burger King.
5. Do you veggies to fruit?
6. John is vegetarian. He likes veggie burgers regular hamburgers.