Rather than 及 instead of 的区别
Rather than 显示出了偏好,后面可以接名词、不动式等,Instead of 只代表客观的替代,无情绪表达。
eg.
I would rather have ice cream than apple pie because I like ice cream better. But if there weren't very much ice cream left, and I wanted to save some for tomorrow, I might have apple pie instead of ice cream tonight.
这题我记得:rather than最重要的考点应该不是情绪上的偏好,而是需要平行。
Recently discovered fossil remains strongly suggest that the Australian egg-laying mammals of today are a branch of the main stem of mammalian evolution rather than developing independently from a common ancestor of mammals more than 220 million years ago.
• A rather than developing independently from (这里看着是和 are branch平行,但考虑下意思就知道不对,是一个...的分支,而不是...独立地发展自...)
• B rather than a type that developed independently from
• C rather than a type whose development was independent of (a type和whose搭配不对)
• D instead of developing independently from (development应该优先用,而不是动名词形式)
• E instead of a development that was independent of (意思改变了,是一种..的分支,而不是一种...。这里变成而不是一种发展...)
The "of" in "instead of" is a preposition, and its object must be a noun. Thus, "instead of" can only be used to compare single nouns, and the GMAT Sentence Correction seems to avoid even this use. The GMAT also seems to avoid the "instead of" [gerund] structure. The "than" in "rather than" is a subordinate clause, so the structure "rather than" is considerably more flexible in what can follow it.