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Use A instead of/ rather than B · grammar word-choice vocabulary. I wish to know if I should use Instead of or Rather Than in this sentence:. EnglishLanguageLearnersStackExchangeisaquestionandanswersiteforspeakersofotherlanguageslearningEnglish.Itonlytakesaminutetosignup. Signuptojointhiscommunity Anybodycanaskaquestion Anybodycananswer Thebestanswersarevotedupandrisetothetop Home Public Questions Tags Users Unanswered Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Collaborateandshareknowledgewithaprivategroup. CreateafreeTeam WhatisTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. Learnmore UseAinsteadof/ratherthanB AskQuestion Asked 1year,11monthsago Active 1year,11monthsago Viewed 491times 0 IwishtoknowifIshoulduseInsteadoforRatherThaninthissentence: Sometimes,peopleusepencilsinsteadof/ratherthanpens. I'dratheruse"Ratherthan"(sinceitisusedforpreference),butI'mnotsosure.Couldyouhelpme? grammarword-choicevocabulary Share Improvethisquestion Follow askedJan20'20at19:05 JasonO'NeilJasonO'Neil 43544silverbadges1616bronzebadges 3 1 Ibelievethisanswersyourquestion. – krobelusmeetsyndra Jan20'20at19:11 1 "Rather"indicatesapreference,but"instead"canbebecauseofimpossibility."Iwouldrathercycletoworkthangobytrainbutitistoofartocycleregularly.Butwhenthetrainsarecancelled,Irideabiketoworkinstead." – WeatherVane Jan20'20at19:14 Itisoftenhelpfulforadvancedlearnerstounderstandthederivationofwordstoo.“Insteadof”literallymeans“inplaceof”:etymonline.com/word/instead#etymonline_v_9350 – OrbitalAussie Jan21'20at2:07 Addacomment  |  0 Active Oldest Votes Youmustlogintoanswerthisquestion. Browseotherquestionstaggedgrammarword-choicevocabulary. TheOverflowBlog TheBashisover,buttheseasonlivesalittlelonger FeaturedonMeta ProvidingaJavaScriptAPIforuserscripts Congratulationstothe59sitesthatjustleftBeta Related 2 Donotwishforsomethingmorethanyouworkfor 0 CanIsay"hadbetterdothisTHANdoelse"? 0 How"wouldprefer"&"wouldrather"usedincombinationwith"ratherthan"whenrefertoanotherperson? 2 ''Ratherthanvsover'' 0 Usingaverbwith-ingafter"ratherthan" 2 Whatisthedifferencebetweenratherthanandinsteadof? 1 "such+noun+likesomething"structureinsteadof"such+noun+assomething"structure 1 peoplewhobring/bringsyoudown 1 "Whowouldyouratherhadwon"isthiscorrect? HotNetworkQuestions Generatingamatrixwithspecificnumberof1'sineveryrowandcolumn IncreaseminimumPWMdutycycleforhighresolutionPWM Isitpossibletodoan"inverse/symmetricaldifferencefill"forpolygonsinQGIS,i.e.filleverythingBUTthepolygons? SSLTrustSealof"https://www.ebay.co.uk" Itispossibletoprovethattwoprivatekeysarerelated? DoesanEEPROMconsumepoweronlyduringthetransitionedgesorduringentireread/writecycle? Whyistararchivebiggerthantextfile? Anyonehavetroublewithsharpturnsonthetownie? Spring22testmethodGACKwhenassigningaPermissionSettoanewly-createduser Whydidthesoilgoinfertileafterthehabdepressurised? Drawingdicesimulation HowtoplotGraphwhichcontainsduplicatenodes? Compareshapelesslists Whataremyoptionstogetaspammable,nearly-free(intermsofbothactioneconomyandresourceusage),short-rangeteleport? Whichrespositorydoesxvnc4viewerbelongto? DidOppenheimerquotetheBhagavadGitaaftertheTrinitytest? Problemwithspaces She'sbeenbannedfromtennisforfiveyears WhyareCentOSmirrorsHTTPandnotHTTPS? Whyisitunlawfulforanofficerofthecourttoinformajurytheymayfindastheyseefit,absolutely? WhatwouldbeagoodexplanationforwhyTrollseatElves? Singlewire(nogroundwire)longdistancelowfrequencycommunication Whydopeopleusethehorsestance?Won'titexposeyoutogroinshots? Isthereareasontobelievethatour[universe]obeysinternallyconsistentrules? morehotquestions Questionfeed SubscribetoRSS Questionfeed TosubscribetothisRSSfeed,copyandpastethisURLintoyourRSSreader. Yourprivacy Byclicking“Acceptallcookies”,youagreeStackExchangecanstorecookiesonyourdeviceanddiscloseinformationinaccordancewithourCookiePolicy. Acceptallcookies Customizesettings