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Updated on: 28 Aug 2019, 10:40
Originally posted by g.matter on 10 Nov 2006, 10:29.
Last edited by Sajjad1994 on 28 Aug 2019, 10:40, edited 3 times in total.
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Many people mistakenly believe that the potato is a food that is unhealthy and fattening rather than being both low in calories and high in necessary carbohydrates.
A. rather than being
B. rather than one that is
C. rather than one that has
D. instead of being one that is
E. instead of one that has
A. rather than being
B. rather than one that is
C. rather than one that has
D. instead of being one that is
E. instead of one that has
23 Jan 2012, 12:09
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Hi,
@g.matter, mohan514: You ask a very valid question. Here is the difference in the usage of “rather than” and “instead of”.
“Rather than” is generally used to show the preference for one thing over the other. Commonly, we see this expression used in sentences that pertains to parallelism (for example in the original sentence).
For example:
a. I will buy the blue tie rather than the red.
b. She decided to stay home rather than going out in the snow.
“Instead of” is used to denote a substitute for the other. Also use of verbs is considered incorrect after “instead of”.
For example:
a. I bought the blue tie instead of the red.
b. She ate popcorn instead of marshmallows.
In the original sentence, use of “instead of” is incorrect because here one quality of potato is not a substitute for another quality of the vegetable. The sentence talks about a wrong notion prevalent among people. People believe in one quality of potato rather than the other quality of it. The intended meaning of the sentence makes the use of “instead of” incorrect here.
Hope this help.
Shraddha
@g.matter, mohan514: You ask a very valid question. Here is the difference in the usage of “rather than” and “instead of”.
“Rather than” is generally used to show the preference for one thing over the other. Commonly, we see this expression used in sentences that pertains to parallelism (for example in the original sentence).
For example:
a. I will buy the blue tie rather than the red.
b. She decided to stay home rather than going out in the snow.
“Instead of” is used to denote a substitute for the other. Also use of verbs is considered incorrect after “instead of”.
For example:
a. I bought the blue tie instead of the red.
b. She ate popcorn instead of marshmallows.
In the original sentence, use of “instead of” is incorrect because here one quality of potato is not a substitute for another quality of the vegetable. The sentence talks about a wrong notion prevalent among people. People believe in one quality of potato rather than the other quality of it. The intended meaning of the sentence makes the use of “instead of” incorrect here.
Hope this help.
Shraddha
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aren't the use of ONE THAT together is redundant ??
