请教instead of 和 rather than的用法

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1.instead of 是介词，后面可以加doing吗？doing不是名词吧

2.rather than 是并列连词？后面一定要加句子吗？

请教高人给我讲解一下这两个词组的用法

aeoluseros

1.instead of后面加noun/noun phr.(including gerund).

2.rather than可以视之为并列连词，也可以视之为介词短语，所以后面可以跟名词，不带to的不定式，很少情况下还跟带主语的不定式，比如:
Rather than Robert drive in his present state, I’d prefer to drive him home myself.

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谢谢啊

珊若小花

aeoluseros 发表于 2009-5-13 09:17
1.instead of后面加noun/noun phr.(including gerund).2.rather than可以视之为并列连词，也可以视之为介词 ...

请问版主rather than后面可以加doing么感觉以前都在说bla bla rather than do sth

AMBER513

珊若小花 发表于 2014-7-20 14:16
请问版主rather than后面可以加doing么感觉以前都在说bla bla rather than do sth

需要平行

AMBER513

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.