--- In [email protected], t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 
wrote:
> > > 
> > > > More like, "I'd rather you were dead."
> > > 
> > > Is that a full sentence?
> > 
> > The part in quotes is.
> 
> Were is the verb?
>

That's an interesting expression in English. "Rather" seems
to act like a verb. I think it's an ellipsis, or stuff.
I'd say from the English point of view it's perfectly 
grammatical.

This from Webster's:  :)

7. had or would rather, to prefer that or to: I had much rather we 
not stay. We would rather go for dinner after the show.






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