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instead ofmeaning

preposition·B1·9 letters

in place of, as an alternative to

Example sentence

Let's walk instead of taking the car today.

What "instead of" looks like in a lesson

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Give me a sentence with "instead of".

Let's walk instead of taking the car today.

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That works. Now tell me where you last heard "instead of".

"instead of" in real videos

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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

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