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.