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kourtneyj

#46994 Thu, 23 Sep 04 06:39 PM

I am trying to teach my students parts of speech. They came up with the sentence, "I'd rather eat ice cream than diagram sentences." What part of speech is rather and than?

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anon1

#47007 Thu, 23 Sep 04 08:34 PM

Hi kourtneyj,

Rather - adverb modifying eat

Than - conjunction

That's how I understand it.

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