prefers
Saypri-FURZUS/pɹɪˈfɝz/UK/pɹɪˈfɜːz/AUS/pɹɪˈfəːz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present indicative of prefer.
The committee prefers candidates with extensive field experience.
She prefers walking to driving whenever the weather allows.
Note
The form that agrees with a singular subject, such as she, the committee or a reader. I, you, we and they keep bare prefer. Every meaning of the verb travels with it. Someone prefers walking to driving, and a complainant prefers charges, the formal sense of submitting a matter to an authority. The older sense of advancing a person, as when a patron prefers a protégé, is now dated.
prefers is a form of prefer
prefer, verb: To choose or like one thing more than another, usually as a matter of habit. Full entry
- Forms
- preferprefers he/she/itpreferring -ing formpreferred past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- prefer → prefers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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