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Bookmark or Share- a.m. or am - punctuating time | WordReference ForumsThe 14th Ed., 14.30, says the CMS preferred style is small caps with periods while British practice is lowercase with periods. However, they go on to say that small caps without periods is an acceptable alternative, and, if your system does not have small caps, full caps is acceptable.
- I would have preferred to/I would have preferred it if...I would have preferred it if the directive had been adopted. On balance, whilst progress was made, we would have preferred to have made much more progress. On balance, whilst progress was made, we would have preferred it if we had made much more progress. I am one of those who would have preferred the Commission to have been elected three weeks ...
- prefer to do something rather than (to) do... / prefer doing....Hi, I recently learnt this sentence pattern: prefer to do something rather than (to) do something else My query is, is the second to really necessary? For example: I prefer to eat bananas rather than (to) eat oranges. Thank you! :)
- Prefer A to B | WordReference Forums1. If i say "I prefer A to B." that mean i like A than B or I like B more than A ? 2. if i say "I prefer going shopping to staying home" that mean i like going shopping than staying home, is it correct? 3. if i say "I prefer C rather than D." Does it mean like the first one? Thank you.
- I'm more prefer / I more prefer - WordReference ForumsOf course, and I did say it's not very good. I was just trying to contrive a situation in which, if one really wanted to combine prefer with more, one could do so, by saying that one preferred Z more (to X than one prefers Y to X).
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