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[sejpdw]

1. Rather than tell a lie, I prefer to tell the truth.
2. Rather than telling a lie, I prefer to tell the truth.
3. Rahter than invent a new vocabulary for webblog, we use existing vocabulary for that.

Tell me whether these three sentences are gramatically right or not.
And what's the differece between #1 and #2?

[CP]

I think for parallelism, you want to have sentence 1 rather than sentence 2. Sentence 2 would have to be re-written, "Rather than telling a lie, I prefer telling the truth."

Sentence 3 needs a little tinkering. Try:

"Rather than invent a new vocabulary for weblogs, we use the existing vocabulary."
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