After some research and consideration, the issue on using "to" or "than" in the recent Grammar cloze passage exercise has been resolved.
According to Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advance Learners and The Encartar Concise English Dictionary, the usage of "to" is listed under "prefer...to".
E.g. He prefers climbing to swimming.
They prefer cooking to doing dishes.
As for "than", it is used together with "rather".
E.g. He would rather choose climbing than swimming.
They would rather cook than do dishes. or
They would cook rather than do dishes.
In conclusion, we'll prefer using "to" whenever we see "prefer".
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6 Jan 2011:
The Writing Package booklet will be ready soon.
All corrections for writing assignments will be done either in BLACK or BLUE ink.
MBS Symbols for Marking
T : Tense
s/v : Subject – verb agreement
RO : Run-on
WF : Wrong form (had ran)
WW: Wrong word (find vs look for)
Sp : Spelling
P : Punctuation
^ : Something missing
SS : Sentence structure
// : Paragraph
13 Jan 2011:
Please cut out newspaper reports on accidents over this weekend (14-15 Jan) and pickup common words used to describe a road traffic accident. We'll be discussing and writing on this topic very soon.
